Tuam, Ireland

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Tuam councillors are hoping to move the town's so-called 'superloo' to one of the area's popular walking spots. The facility, which is currently based at Vicar Street car park, has been out of order for around two years. The Tuam district ringfences over 22 thousand euro a year in ...

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Tuam's new local area plan is up for discussion by the County Council next week amid concerns over the town boundary, recreation facilities and planning issues. The draft plan and the 36 submissions received from public bodies and locals have been discussed by Tuam area ...

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Works on the provision of a new mental health facility in Tuam – to be housed in the old Grove Hospital that closed more than 25 years ago – could begin in a matter of months. It is anticipated that tender documents for the day hospital and disability unit will be ready next month at which point a contractor will be sought to ...

Galway Bay fm newsroom – An appeal has been lodged against a planned new betting office in Tuam town. Last month, Bar One Racing was given the green light to change the former Xtra Vision store at the Square in Tuam into a bookies. However, that decision has now been appealed to An Bord ...

The townland of Coolrevagh, about five kilometres south-east of Tuam, is no exception. Early Ordnance Survey maps suggest this was a busy enough spot in the past though, with a corn mill, a sizeable cluster of dwellings and a Catholic church (already in ruins by 1838 when the first survey was done).

Members of the public have until 4pm tomorrow (Friday ) to make submissions as part of the independent consultation process on the five possible options identified by the Expert Technical Group for responding to the discovery of infant remains at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home, Tuam.

Galway Bay fm newsroom– A secondary school in Tuam has been given approval to make some changes. The county council has granted planning permission to the Board of Management of St. Jarlath's College to convert 4 classrooms on the first floor into 2 new classrooms. However, the council has ...

Survivors and family members of the 796 'Tuam babies' warned on Sunday that the Irish authorities can expect public protests if they fail to carry out a full forensic excavation, exhumation, and DNA testing at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Co Galway. The survivors were given a special ...

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Tuam historian Catherine Corless has hit out at the government for failing to commit to excavation, exhumation, and DNA testing of the remains at the Tuam mother and baby home site. One year on from the announcement that a substantial amount of human remains had been ...

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Two consultation meetings will take place this week on the future of the Tuam mother and baby home site. Tuam historian Catherine Corless has hit out at the Government for failing to commit to excavation, exhumation, and DNA testing of the remains at the Athenry Road ...

“The Tuam babies deserve a decent burial in consecrated ground alongside their relatives. Memorialising them with a statue planked on top of the septic tank is only a further slight adding to the way their little bodies were discarded in the first place.” Ms Corless also hit out at the “callous and cold voting ...

Tuam babies campaigner Catherine Corless has hit out at the Government for focusing “on cost” rather than committing to a full forensic excavation, exhumation, and DNA testing of the remains at ... She said she “tried in vain to stop this callous and cold voting system” to decide what is to be done at Tuam.

Galway historian Catherine Corless, whose work resulted in the discovery of the remains of hundreds of babies and infants on the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, has urged members of the public to support full exhumation and DNA testing of the remains. Galway County Council recently ...

Ms Kavanagh, a former child psychotherapist who is now doing a degree in fine arts specialising in ceramics, said the story of the Tuam babies resonated with her. “The amount of grief and ritual and mourning that would normally be around a loss like that or around grief like that was missing in this – so this ...

Minister for Children Katherine Zappone will bring proposals to Cabinet about the prospects of identifying babies in a mass grave in a former religious-run institution in Tuam, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking in Limerick, Mr Varadkar said a report on the issue previously filed to the State did not ...

THE REMAINS OF hundreds of people buried in a mass grave in Tuam should be able to be identified due to advances in DNA testing, a team of scientists have said. The scientists contradict a government commissioned report by an expert technical group looking into the discovery of juvenile remains at ...

Hundreds of babies buried in a mass grave in a former religious-run mother and babies' home in Tuam, Co Galway can be identified because of major advances in DNA testing, a team of scientists have declared. The University College Dublin-Trinity College team have challenged the findings of an expert ...

This time last year, senior members of cabinet were making headlines across the world with their eloquent expressions of outrage about the dark secrets that had been unearthed in the former grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. Though the story was profoundly grim and tragic, their ...

Former residents of the mother and baby home in Tuam will outline their views on the manner in which Galway County Council should deal with the discovery of remains on the site at a consultation event this afternoon. Relatives of those who lived in the home have also been invited to the meeting in Tuam.