The site of the former Tuam mother and baby home has now been sealed off to members of the public and will remain closed for at least two years for the first ever mass grave exhumation in Ireland.

Preparatory work has begun prior to the exhumation of 796 infant bodies interred close to a mother and baby home run by nuns ...

Preparatory work will begin on Monday at the site of the former mother and baby institution in Tuam, Co Galway, in advance of ...

Preliminary works to enable the excavation of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, are under way.

Preliminary works are under way to enable the excavation of the remains of almost 800 infants at the site of the former ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam in Co Galway has begun. The preparatory ...

Preliminary works are under way to enable the excavation of the remains of almost 800 infants at the site of the former ...

Pre-excavation work on the site of a notorious former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, has begun. The preparatory phase, which will last around four weeks, comes before the full-scale ...

Preliminary works to enable the excavation of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, are due to begin today.

The "unique and incredibly complex excavation" at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home is expected to take roughly 24 months.

Excavation works will start this morning at the former Bon Secours institution, as part of an ongoing effort to identify the ...