Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home

Catherine Corless's research and Alison O'Reilly's Mail on Sunday reporting, 2014 Corless, a local historian, obtained death records showing that 796 babies and children had died at the Tuam home run by the Bon Secours Sisters, yet there were no burial records. When she brought her findings to O'Reilly in 2014, the publicity led former residents to come forward, and a state commission into Tuam and other mother and baby homes was set up in 2015. This is the entry that best shows how patient work by someone outside any newsroom can become journalism, once a reporter takes it seriously.