The fascinating – and often colourful – careers of three leading North Westmeath political figures will be recalled at a ...

Several women told the commission of investigation into a mother-and-baby home in the midlands that they witnessed nuns leaving the hospital with up to ten dead babies in shoe boxes and bringing them ...

An Irish woman says she was accused of "spawning the seed of Satan" and lost three babies to nun “baby snatchers” and that the babies were force-fed for six weeks to fatten them up for adoption. Mary ...

The GAA community is in shock following the sudden death of a Westmeath hurler following a training session with his club Castlepollard on Tuesday evening. A spokesperson for Westmeath GAA told ...

“You would not talk to them,” the locals told me in Tuam near Galway City this weekend, “they were outcasts.” They were speaking to IrishCentral about the mothers and babies secreted away to The Home, ...

Glenealy 2-14, Castlepollard (Westmeath) 1-10 Joey Driver; Phillip Dunne, Michael A. O'Neill, Colm Byrne; Ger Devlin, Declan Doyle (0-1), Michael J. O'Neill; Mick Byrne, Leighton Glynn (0-2); Nigel ...

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