The tribunal is examining allegations of a smear campaign against whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe – as alleged by the former head of the Garda Press Office Supt Dave Taylor. The tribunal this morning is also expected to hear a detailed response from the company’s solicitor Michael Keeley to a separate allegation made about him by Ms O’Reilly – that he put up his hand and said “I don’t want to know” when Ms O’Reilly was attempting to tell him that Ms McCann alleged to her that Sgt McCabe was a child abuser. The Disclosures Tribunal is expected to hear exactly what Irish Mail on Sunday journalist Debbie McCann’s position is on allegations made to the tribunal about her by her Irish Daily Mail colleague Alison O’Reilly.

From top: Alison O’Reilly, of the Irish Daily Mail and Debbie McCann, crime correspondent of the Irish Mail on Sunday are at loggerheads over alleged smears against Garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) Here, Anna and Alison O'Reilly piece together the erased chapter of the life of Bridget Dolan and her forgotten sons, reminding us that we must never forget what was done to the women and children of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

In the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the remains of 796 babies had been found in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, she became compelled to try and find out if her baby brothers' remains were among them. She would go on to marry a wonderful man and have a daughter, Anna Corrigan, but it was only after Bridget's death that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. Her second child was once again delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

My Name Is Bridget by Alison O'Reilly