The veteran presenter was always adept at tapping into his audience’s concerns. People talked to Joe, after all ...

Anne Marie Allen’s strikingly angry memoir recalls the years she spent working as an unpaid skivvy for the Catholic Church ...

A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in ...

“Many of the infant remains are feared to have been dumped in the cesspool known as ‘the pit’ at the former institution,” Corless told Sky News. She added, “I’m feeling very relieved. It’s been a long ...

While visiting Ireland this spring, I traipsed through a Catholic church in Galway. Off in one corner, a plaque described how convents over the last century, including one associated with ...

Originating in Ireland in the 18 th century, and operated by female religious organizations with government consent from the mid-19 th century onwards, the secretive, commercial laundry facilities, ...

One Housewife of the Year winner, Ann, was married at 20 and by the age of 31 had 13 children, including four sets of twins.

The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home was supposed to be a haven for women who had given birth out of wedlock but sadly many ...

Many babies and young children were buried without a proper funeral or marked grave at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby ...

Mary may have come into contact with Jesus because of his healing powers. “Seven demons had gone out of her,” says Luke (Luke 8:2). Some scholars believe that the Magdalene may be the same ...

Mary Magdalene is one of the most intriguing figures in Christian history and has been portrayed in many different ways. Some say she was a sinner, others say she was a saint, some others say she ...