A FORMER resident of a mother-and-baby institution in Northern Ireland has threatened legal action over Stormont’s failure to deliver a public inquiry and redress.

In 2021, the Northern Ireland executive was urged to establish a public inquiry into mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland and to deliver financial redress.

More than 14,000 women and teenage girls passed through those institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1990, research has indicated.