Free legal assistance offered to survivors of Ireland's mother and baby homes

A new initiative will provide free legal aid to women who lived in mother and baby homes in Ireland between 1922 and 1998. The legal help will assist women in drafting witness statements to give to a commission investigating how women and children were treated at the homes.

The project has been set up by Justice for Magdalenes Research and the Adoption Rights Alliance, RTE reports. Known as Clann: Ireland’s Unmarried Mothers and their Children: Gathering the Data, the project has been endorsed by Philomena Lee and her daughter Jane Libberton.

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