Huge congratulations to our friend Mary Harney 💐

The Annual Bessboro Commemoration: Sunday 28 June @2pm We come together to honour the women and children who died in Bessboro.Hundreds of children have no known burial place. Until they are acknowledged with truth, dignity, & respect, we will continue to speak their names & highlight their stories.

#Bessborough #UnmarkedGraves #859Missing #MotherAndBabyHomes #Ireland #Cork

#bessborough #859Missing #UnmarkedGraves #Ireland #Cork #MotherAndBabyHomes

#Bessborough #UnmarkedGraves #NoBuilding #859Missing #Ireland #MotherAndBabyHomes

#Bessborough #UnmarkedGraves #NoBuilding #859Missing #Ireland

#Bessborough #UnmarkedGraves #NoBuilding #859Missing #Ireland

#Bessborough #UnmarkedGraves #859Missing #NoBuilding

#UnmarkedGraves #Bessboro #Bessborough #859Missing #NoBuilding

#UnmarkedGraves #Bessboro #NoBuilding #859Missing #Ireland

Keeping up our campaign to highlight a development has been granted permission on Bessboro grounds, a site that holds the trauma & memories by so many that went through Bessboro. We read the names, omitting surnames from the 70’s. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

An important reminder, via @carmelcantwell.bsky.social's research that while we associate life-long incarceration with Magdalene laundries, women also stayed in 'mother and baby homes' like Bessborough for life www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

1) Ethics and the 1926 Census The release of the 1926 Census this weekend marks a significant moment for historical research in Ireland. Over the past two decades, I have used publicly available records to identify women who lived & died within the Magdalene Laundries.

What a great achievement @liamconlon.bsky.social — just in time for Philomena‘s birthday (March 24)

1/2 The Dept of Children, Disability & Equality has launched a public consultation on changes to the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 relating to illegal birth registrations. The survey is open to all so please get involved if it's of relevance to you: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

10) For further details on the work of the MNP see: jfmresearch.com/home/magdale... Chapter 8 of: jfmresearch.com/books/irelan... Chapter 11 of: jfmresearch.com/books/dublin...

1) It has come to my attention that David Quinn, writing in a Catholic publication and relying on the McAleese Report’s flawed findings, has made inaccurate claims regarding both the extent of abuse and the length of confinement experienced by women in the Magdalene Laundries.

1/2 Please support @carmelcantwell.bsky.social and the Bessboro Support Group, at their vigil on 8th March at 1pm in protest at the Cork City Council decision to grant planning permission for development of the Bessboro site.

#Cork come and support us Sunday 8th March @ 1pm to protest against a recently granted planning development. 9 2 3 children born here died.

This is not about housing but profit. This is not about the women & children that had so much taken from them. #Bessboro is a place that still holds so much trauma. The pain from not only losing a child but from the injustice of it never being properly. www.irishexaminer.com/property/dev... 1/9

“The investigation detailed how specific chemical compositions in Israeli munitions turn human bodies into ash in seconds.” 2,842 Palestinians were fried by illegal thermal weapons — leaving parents with no remains of their children to mourn or bury www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

The Special Advocate's Press Release is available here: www.specialadvocate.ie/press-releas...

1) Minister Norma Foley has finally published the 'Mother & Baby Institutions Payment Scheme' annual report for 2024. Just a few initial observations: ❓It's Feb 2026 - why the delay in publication? 📖 It's just 22 pages long, which means it's low on details. This is deeply troubling.

C’mon lads—

Developers are trying again to put a foothold in developing on the grounds of #Bessboro. If one gets through the others will follow. ‘The Farm’ development will destroy our history. In this area witnesses saw burials take place. So much has already been lost

Here we go again…. Planning at #Bessborough. The farmyard area is a very sensitive area. Children worked there with their mothers. Children were buried in areas around it. 761 children died at the premises of which there are no known marked burials for them.

When you know an injustice was done …… you keep going! #JusticeForWilliam #Bessboro www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/cour...

Human Rights Day 2025

I hope this is the beginning of finding out the truth. Thinking of all family members with a relative here. 'Consistent evidence' of second burial ground at Tuam www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...

This is such important work at Tuam in recovering human remains. It will give us an understanding as to what happened to hundreds of children who died at St Mary’s mother & baby ‘home’. My personal interest is at #Bessboro, the former mother www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Press Release from Special Advocate Patricia Carey #Tuam #Bessborough #SeanRossAbbey #UnmarkedGravexs www.specialadvocate.ie/press-releas...

There will (rightly) be much focus on Tuam in the coming days. But we can’t forget there are many other sites with remains unaccounted for, with families seeking answers & justice, e.g., @carmelcantwell.bsky.social @consumerfrank.bsky.social All burial sites deserve the same level of scrutiny.

Yesterday in the Irish Times Aoife Kelleher director of ‘Testimony’wrote an essay about my mum &others in the film about Justice for MagdalenesResearch’s fight for justice. It has taken years for my mother to forego her anonymity. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

jfmresearch.com/testimony/jf... The Testimony documentary has been screened without rolling text where a whistleblower Nun writes to the Bishop to let him know about severe abuses she witnessed in a Magdalene Laundry.