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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hi, everyone. As you've probably heard, there have been a lot of developments

in Ireland recently concerning the inquest into the mother and baby homes. If you don't

know what a mother and baby home is, in Ireland, it's where unwed mothers were sent to birth

their children, while they lived at the homes they worked for free. When their children were

born, they were separated from them and sent back into the world. The baby would then stay

at the home until it was old enough to leave, be adopted, or in a lot of cases, the baby

would die. Worst of all, the women and girls, some as young as 12 or 11 who were sent to

the homes, were told that the church was doing them a favour by dealing with the consequences

of their sins for them. The last mother and baby home in Ireland

closed its doors in 1998. This is far from ancient history, so don't be fooled. The most

famous of the mother and baby homes is in Tum and Galway. The deaths of 796 children

that cannot be connected to any burial records were discovered by homegrown hero Catherine

Koolis. You can hear the whole story in our episode as episode 96, it's called the

Tum 796. If you haven't listened to it or if you need a reminder, go back and listen

to that episode and then come back to me in this update. But if you're going to keep

listening, this is what you need to know. Human remains were found at the site of an

old mother and baby home, and it was strongly suspected that the dead 796 children that had

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