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THE Catholic Church warned a women’s religious order yesterday to comply with any inquiry into a mass grave found at one of its former children’s homes.
Thousands of bones belonging to as many as 796 children were found in a disused sewage cistern on the site of a County Galway “mother-and-baby home” in 1975.
They were initially thought to be victims of the Irish Potato Famine, but local historian Catherine Corless found in public records that the 796 children had died at the home between 1925 and 1961 and believes most, if not all, were interred in the cistern.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
‘We are unable to get them out, even in small pieces’: Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 35 people today, including four members of one family