Joanne Sharkey was only arrested 25 years after the killing and admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

State-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a ...

Sharkey was given a two-year prison sentence for manslaughter and six months for the offence of concealment of the birth of a child, to run concurrent and both suspended for two years. Callum, a ...