الثلاثاء، 16 نوفمبر 2021

Irish government agrees €800m package for mother and baby home survivors

About 34,000 people thought to be eligible for compensation, including those born in church-run homes

Ireland has confronted one of the most painful chapters in its history and agreed an €800m compensation package to thousands of unmarried mothers shunned by society and hidden away in church-run mother and baby homes.

The redress scheme was agreed by the government cabinet on Tuesday and will offer up to €65,000 each to survivors of a practice, widely condemned as a shameful and cruel, that spanned almost 80 years of the country’s 100-year history.

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