Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crime scene experts and forensic archaeologists in Ireland will excavate and try to identify the remains of over 800 infants who ...

In 2012, after years of research, amateur historian Catherine Corless published an astonishing story in a local history journal detailing that 798 children had died at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home ...

Digging has begun to uncover the remains of some 800 infants and young children buried in mass graves in Tuam, western Ireland. These children have been unidentified for at least 65 years, and it was ...

Excavations begin Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children. The planned ...

The Catholic faith has, for decades now, been waning in what was once a devout stronghold of the faith, but a new survey is suggesting that Ireland may soon experience a sort of Christian revival, ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam and Killala has said that though weekly Mass attendances have “fallen considerably” and ...

This July 11, 2025, photograph shows Niamh McCullagh, a forensic expert, standing on the site in Tuam, Ireland, where she is leading efforts to exhume the remains of children buried at the former St.

The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing fresh accusations of child neglect after a researcher found records for 796 youngsters believed to be buried in a mass grave beside a former orphanage for the ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...