Dr Claire McGettrick, born Lorraine Hughes

🚨We've just published an Interim Guide to help people navigate the new system. (Thanks so much as always to @loughlin who teamed up with us to make this happen!)

If you're a person affected by: 📂Forced family separation (eg adoption, boarding out) 📂Magdalene Laundries 📂Industrial Schools You can learn how to access your records & challenge the withholding/redaction of your documents here: clannproject.org/records/

This is the corner of All Saints Cemetary #CarrsHill where experts believe #Bessboro children that died in St Finbarr’s hospital r buried. No records to corroborate this but I’m pretty sure now that the nuns didn’t claim the bodies back leaving mothers wondering for a life time.

See this Clann submission for a critique of the State’s Action Plan 👇

If records have been redacted or withheld from you under the BirthInfo system, see our FAQs at the following link for guidance on how to challenge this: clannproject.org/resources/birt…

When the #BirthInfo legislation was going through the Oireachtas @Kathleensf1 was a formidable ally & a wonderful support at a time when we felt utterly powerless. I’m so glad she got the justice she deserves & blown away by her bravery in speaking out in solidarity with others.

Bishop Brendan Comiskey has died He was appointed Bishop of Ferns in 1984. He resigned on 1 April 2002, 2 weeks after my BBC documentary 'Suing The Pope' exposed decades of mismanagement and coverup of child sexual abuse by priests of that diocese Some thoughts on his passing🧵