Adopted people will not be given automatic access to their birth records under planned changes to legislation on adoption. Read More
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs has again defended its decision not to publish the report of the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby…
Philomena Lee’s lost son was one of thousands of Irish babies forcibly adopted and sent to America—many of them, as it turns out, to St….
Evanne Ní Chuilinn tells the story of her adoption and investigates the progress being made, if any, by speaking to others who have been adopted on the…
Religious orders, HSE sued over alleged forced adoption Woman claims four-month-old baby taken from her 45 years ago http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/religious-orders-hse-sued-over-alleged-forced-adoption-1.2097258
Adopted people have hit out at claims by Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald that every adoption carried out by the State was done in line with…
THE WOMAN whose tragic tale has focused international attention on Ireland’s shameful forced adoptions has called for the release of more than 60,000 records about…
I wish to respond to the fine article written by Conall Ó Fatharta on ‘Illegal’ adoptions (Jan 14). It is indeed something that is not…
The Adoption Authority was alerted to the activities of a Monaghan GP recently exposed as arranging illegal adoptions in the 1970’s as far back as…
Groups representing natural mothers and adopted people have called for an investigation into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions in Ireland. www.irishexaminer.com