Irish government agrees €800m package for mother and baby home survivors
by Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin from on (#5RZWX)
About 34,000 people thought to be eligible for compensation, including those born in church-run homes
Ireland has confronted one of the most painful chapters in its history and agreed an 800m compensation package to thousands of unmarried mothers shunned by society and hidden away in church-run mother and baby homes.
The redress scheme was agreed by the government cabinet on Tuesday and will offer up to 65,000 each to survivors of a practice, widely condemned as a shameful and cruel, that spanned almost 80 years of the country's 100-year history.
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