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'I spent 1,300 days there and I get nothing': Mother and Baby Home survivors consider legal action jrnl.ie/6339733
Thank you Órla Ryan for keeping a lazer-sharp focus on this ongoing scandal.

At the beginning of her life, my mother was born in a mother & baby home with the third highest death rate in Ireland.

At 15 days old, my mother was sent in a taxi to an adoption home halfway up the country with her mother.

Her mother would visit her a few times by...

The award is for a piece of social affairs journalism which combines the rigorous analysis and commitment to social justice that characterised Raftery’s work.

Thank you so much to the judges for choosing Calling Time out of a really impressive shortlist.
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It was amazing and humbling to win the 2023 The Mary Raftery Prize along with my editor Maria Delaney at Noteworthy.

We won for our Calling Time investigation which exposed how the rights of children of prisoners were not being fulfilled.

Read their stories: noteworthy.ie/calling-time-p…

Delighted to be named as winner of The Mary Raftery Prize for the second time, in this instance alongside Órla Ryan and Sinéad O'Carroll for Redacted Lives.

Mary's work demonstrates how vitally important the work of journalists is in society and the change it can achieve.

Our investigation won!!! Thank you so much to the The Mary Raftery Prize jury and to all the families of prisoners who trusted us with their stories Maria Delaney Noteworthy

Justine McCarthy delivered the inaugural Mary Raftery memorial lecture last night. It was a passionate and moving defence of journalism's role in shining a light into dark places and giving a voice to the voiceless

The winners of the Mary Raftery Journalism Prizes 2022 and 2023 Dublin City University Dublin City University_SoC

Congrats to my former colleagues Nicky Ryan and Órla Ryan on their tireless work uncovering stories from Ireland's mother and baby homes. Go and give Redacted Lives a listen.

Winners x 3! Congrats to Órla Ryan Alice Chambers and Nicky Ryan for winning the Mary Raftery Prize for outstanding contributions to social affairs journalism. And that's their boss Susan Daly of TheJournal.ie behind - leaving before they ask for a pay rise!

The Journal's Redacted Lives podcast and two Noteworthy projects have been nominated for the prestigious The Mary Raftery Prize

Read more here: jrnl.ie/6336682t

Deeply honoured that Redacted Lives has been shortlisted for the Mary Raftery Prize Nicky Ryan Sinéad O'Carroll

Mary was such an incredible journalist who gave voice to the voiceless. Her legacy speaks for itself.

We're in esteemed company too, congratulations to all nominees.

Since the waiver for the #MotherandBabyHomes payment scheme was not made publicly available, I put in an FOI request for a copy of it... and I was successful.

This is the one-page waiver people will fill out when sending through an application.

Each year in Ireland ~ 1,500 people develop a psychotic disorder for the first time. The earlier a person’s symptoms are treated, the better the outcome.

No child currently has access to an early intervention team.

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