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Galway Rape Crisis Centre awarded over €400,000 to fight domestic and sexual violence

Galway Rape Crisis Centre will be receiving €444,250 this year to help it combat, domestic, sexual, and gender based violence in the community. This is...

Local childcare providers urged to apply for €6 million fund

Childcare providers in Galway are being urged to apply to a €6 million investment fund which has just opened for applications. Applications have opened this...

Mother and Baby Homes report delayed for another year

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has acknowledged that the families invested in the investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be disappointed at having to...

Victims and perpetrators have been let down by Garda failures

The huge failures to act on youth crimes, which were reported yesterday, must never occur again, said a Galway TD. Responding to a new report...

Government unsure what it’s “getting into” with Tuam Home excavation

Excavations at the site of the Former Tuam Mother and Baby Home won't begin until the second half of 2019. The Taoiseach said that the...

Taoiseach critical of Pope’s response on Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that a letter Pope Francis sent to Children's Minister Katherine Zappone about the Tuam Mother and Baby Home was...

Pope’s letter about Tuam Home makes no mention of compensation

Pope Francis gave no mention of the church helping with the cost of exhuming the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in his response to...

Report on abuse of three children in Galway foster home due shortly

A report by an independent review into the abuse of three children at a foster home in Dunmore near Tuam is due by the...

Bon Secours sisters resisted requests for larger contribution to excavations

The Bon Secours Sisters have resisted calls for them to make a larger contribution to the exhumations at the former Tuam Mother and Baby...

Tuam babies to be exhumed at Mother and Baby Home

The Tuam babies buried at the former Mother and Baby Home will be exhumed and reburied after a forensic analysis it's been decided. The decision...

New funding will improve services for LGBTI+ people in Galway, says Minister

One LGBTI+ organisation in Galway will receive funding of €4,800, it has been announced. The funding, which will go to Amach! LGBT Galway, comes under...

Warning that some children with special needs being blocked from ECCE preschool scheme

Galway East TD Anne Rabbitte has said that Children's Minister Katherine Zappone must ensure that rules around the Early Care and Education Scheme are...

Government could be breaking international law in Tuam Home scandal

The government has been warned that it could be breaking international law against 'enforced disappearances' in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home scandal. The Irish...

Minister asks Church to pay reparations for Tuam Home in letter to Pope

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone has said the Church should willingly pay reparations for what happened in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Minister Zappone met...

Massive crowds at silent vigil in remembrance of Tuam babies

At least 1,000 people gathered for a silent vigil in Tuam this afternoon in honour of the memory of all those who died in...

Human rights based approach involves looking at possibility of re-burial at Tuam

Minister Zappone has said that  a human rights based approach to the Mother and Baby Home site in Tuam would involve looking at the...

Government report warned of illegal adoptions six years ago – Galway TD

A government report on the Magdalene laundries warned of illegal adoptions and tampering with birth records back in 2012. Galway West TD Catherine Connolly told...

New funding for childcare facilities in Galway welcomed

The announcement of funding for childcare facilities in Galway has been welcomed by Galway East TD Sean Canney. Hildegarde Naughton announced that €360,000 will be...

Adoption scandal yet another tragedy from our past says Galway TD

The latest in a never-ending line of scandals - which reveals that at least 126 people had their birth information incorrectly registered - exposes...

Calls for action to address ECCE anomalies for children with additional needs

Galway East TD Anne Rabbitte has called on Minister Katherine Zappone to address the anomaly between the upper age limit for children on the...

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