IT Sunday: Census shows there are more of us, but is a growing population reason for concern?

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Census finds Ireland’s Polish community is getting smaller – why are Poles returning home?

” that brought us to this position. “It’s hard to unpack Ireland’s economy at the best of times but being at full employment and having more people at work than at any other time in the State’s history while simultaneously recording a recession, even in technical terms, is a head-scratcher,” he writes.

in “the Wild West” and explains why he is suing the IRFU. Corkery was found to have brain damage which was then linked to the long-term depression he has suffered. “Did I often think, driving to work, ‘I’ll pull the wheel to the side and just plough into something?’ Yeah, loads of times. I didn’t. I suppose you kept going for the family and the kids,” he said.

Historian Catherine Corless spoke to Keith Duggan on his visit to the site of Tuam’s former mother and baby home where the remains of almost 800 babies are soon to be exhumed. Almost a decade has passed since Corless went public with the revelation that the bodies of hundreds of babies who died from various ailments while in the home had been wrapped in cloths and placed in the chambers of a defunct sewerage system at what was the rear of the former workhouse building.

In advance of the exhumation, she said: “It is going to be difficult, and they do know that the remains are mixed up and whatever cloths the babies were wrapped in are well gone. As well as that water got into the chambers. They are literally going to have to take every little bone they find and label it. And it will be an extraordinary effort by them.” Read the report

 

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