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News Reporter @irishexaminer, Documentary Maker, podcast ‘Troubled Ground, the story of the Tuam Babies’, Licenced Wildlife Rehabber alison.oreilly@examiner.ie
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'All lives must be equal in death': Survivors to hold Bessborough vigil

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By Alison O'Reilly Verified, Donal O’Keeffe Verified
| Echo Live Verified
A group of survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes and other institutions will hold a vigil tomorrow in memory of the children and women who died in Bessborough. The event is being organised by survivors Catherine Coffey O’Brien and Ann O’Gorman, who lost a child in the home. On social media, Ms Coffey O’Brien said the event at 1pm tomorrow is intended to honour those buried in the former institution’s children’s burial ground and to ensure “they are not forgotten”.
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Cork's Bessborough ‘not an empty field waiting to be filled', say campaigners

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By Alison O'Reilly Verified
| Echo Live Verified
A protest outside Leinster House yesterday was told that the site of the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork is “not an empty field waiting to be filled”. Campaigners hoping to stop a development on the site gathered at the gates of Leinster House were joined by families, supporters, and politicians for the No Building Over Bessborough rally. They are fighting to stop the construction of a 140-unit apartment development on the grounds of the former Cork mother and baby home.
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Beekeepers join forces to prevent return of Asian hornet

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By Alison O'Reilly Verified
| Echo Live Verified
Two of the country’s leading beekeeping groups have announced a joint initiative to combat the threat of the deadly Asian hornet. The move comes following the invasive species' rapid expansion across Europe which has raised the alarm among environmental groups and beekeepers. As of September 2025, two nests of the invasive Asian hornet were confirmed here, and removed in Cork. That was following 24 to 36 verified sightings primarily in the Cork and Dublin areas.
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