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AN EXCAVATION WILL be carried out on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.
The excavation will take place following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies and the manner in which they were buried at the home, which came to light two years ago.
The excavation was ordered by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which was set up following the allegations in July 2016.
In a statement issued today, the Commission said that works on the excavation would begin tomorrow and last for about five weeks.
“The purpose of the excavation is to resolve a number of queries that the Mother and Baby Homes Commission has in relation to the interment of human remains at this location,” the statement reads.
This excavation will focus on timeline and stratigraphy.
The Commission said that it will excavate test trenches of the site to determine the timeline of how soil is layered at the site.
It said that geophysical survey of the grounds was carried last year to assist with this.
Children And Youth Affairs Minister Katherine Zapppone travelled to the Tuam site today to meet former residents of mother and baby homes.
The minister said the stories from people who had lived in the home was “very distressing”.
She said she hoped the Commission would help former residents and relatives of those who had died at the homes.
The Commission is due to publish a report into its investigation into the homes in February 2018.
Zappone said that an interim report had recently been presented to her by the Commission.
“I hope in the next week or two I can release that,” she said.
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Unnecessary hysterics, we all know everything is done on pen and paper in this country, that’s why we have schoolteachers as ministers, won’t affect us for another 50years probably
@Stevie Doran: how about the new PPS card that’s not mandatory but obligatory even to make a tax query? All of the information will be kept in America because there’s less protection there? Sounds legit!
@Stevie Doran: I thought we had politicians as ministers. I worked in a bar once when I was in college and have never do so since, am I still a barman?
@Stevie Doran: at least if someone gets the details for €40 you’d know what it says! Be more efficient than the HSE anyway! Plus as Stevie said f all is digital here so we’ll be grand
@Deborah Behan: that’s a lie Deborah. The data is not being stored in the US.
@Deborah Behan: “All of the information will be kept in America”
That’s about the tenth time you have written that, and it has been false every time. How many times do you need to be told?
All your Twitter data is stored in America and you don’t seem to have a problem with that.
@Stevie Doran: The Revenue have ROS, The Gards have PULSE, Social Welfare and Healthcare are similarly digitised. A flippant facetious attitude isn’t going to protect us from cyber attacks.
@Patrick Kearns: Such ignorance on how data is stored and accessed. Take Pulse for example the minute records are being looked up had a high rate the connection is terminated and locked. Not just speed but volume. That is after getting through the security measures which you do either.
The amount of monitoring on traffic on such services is huge. Imagine you have a private road and suddenly you see 1000 trucks on it and you can simply block the road, that is what you do. Or you see a car using it way more than anybody else you stop the car and then find out what they are at.
@Gary: Dail bar?
The one in the Dáil? ;-)
@Deborah Behan: Re your last point: that can’t be done under the new European data protection legislation GDPR, unless they storage company agree to abide by European regulations. So this will either be illegal or the storage company have agree to adhere to forthcoming EU rules. I guess it is the latter.
Roll out the usual suspects from State and semi State bodies assuring us that this simply could not happen in Ireland because we are smarter than smart in protecting our ‘systems’.
@John Campbell: nope calling bull, no government takes lightly the threat of cybercrime anywhere. All they or anyone else can do is try to react quickly to any new threat when it occurs.
Even countries with far far greater resources than Ireland cannot mitigate the risk. You’re barking up the wrong tree if you’re blaming governments for cybercrime.
Cybersecurity/Cybercrime is a self fulfilling prophecy. It’s a small community driving wealth on both sides of the equation…..
Why are medical records so valuable?
@Christy McCarthy: They like to know which viruses your infected with, so they can find a backdoor.
Morning all. Good weekend?
Im in bits..thats for free
It is no cyber-criminals or darkweb looking for our personal data. It is multibillion international companies – insurance brokers, banks or shops who pay for that. Hackers are only middlemen. Why not to point real criminals here ??
Start using blockchain tech
40 euros eh? Hmm new dryer, would i get 10 takers. Who do I talk to?
The password is mam and dads house name or 1956
That all 40 euro? tight B#stards on the dark web
American Social security are not exactly difficult to get.
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