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Experts have negotiated access to thousands of records from institutions for unmarried mothers in Northern Ireland.

The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers, which operated between 1925 and 1961.

Hundreds of babies and children, buried in an unmarked mass grave, at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers near the west coast of Ireland.

One in 4 men will now remain unmarried in their 40s.

It provided accommodation for unmarried mothers and their children during a period when women were ostracised by Irish society, and often by their own families, if they became pregnant outside marriage.