Tuam Babies

In 2016 a 16 year old Argentinian girl, Lucía Pérez, met up with two men she thought were friends, who she thought she was going to hang out with and smoke some weed. They led her to an abandoned building, brutally raped her, impaled her…

Who Will Water the Olive Trees? Every day we are inundated with breaking news about the refugee crisis around the world, and closer to home, of the tragedy surrounding the Tuam Babies case. For many, it can be difficult to know where to…

On Friday March 3rd the news that human remains had indeed been found at the mother and baby home in Tuam broke. The Citizens' Assembly met that same weekend to debate the calls for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. On Wednesday…

The greatest trick the Church ever played was convincing the Irish that it wasn’t dictating our lives. Catholicism has a way of forcing itself upon the Irish psyche, but it goes about its work with such subtlety that we still react to its…

Tuam At Choeung Ek, our guide points out the sugar palm’s serrated bark good for cutting throats. In these fields a tree can be a knife. A mouth that knew only several joyful tastes of what should have been a lifetime’s sugar can…