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# adoption series

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Adopted people will no longer have to attend mandatory information session when seeking records
40 years of nothing, then a message saying 'I'm your son': Mother & son reunite after 4 decades
O'Gorman says term 'birth mother' is 'reductive and hurtful' ahead of legislation debate
Denying adopted people access to their birth certs 'could re-traumatise them'
Geraldine was born in St Patrick's, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
O'Gorman says adopted people will get birth certs and other information under new legislation
Report into illegal adoptions estimates there are thousands of 'suspicious' files, but advises against inquiry
'If the Commission dissolves tomorrow, we'll be denied justice': Survivor says testimony was 'misrepresented'
'Lives could be saved': Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted'
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'