Illegal adoption investigator strongly objected to redaction of institution names in report
The report was published with the names of the institutions redacted.
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The report was published with the names of the institutions redacted.
The review was commissioned in 2018 but its publication was delayed.
Adopted people and survivors of mother and baby homes say forced adoption was widespread, regardless of what the commission says.
Susan Lohan says adopted people have for decades been fed a false narrative about their mothers in the hopes they won’t try to find them.
Tressa Reeves was separated from her son for 52 years.
The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors also called for a full national DNA database with free testing for all adoptees and illegal adoptees.
Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and America to reveal the moving stories of parents and children.
I shudder to imagine what those mothers and their beautiful babies went through. But we need to ask the difficult question: is this the correct use of funds that children living today so badly need?
The history of Ireland’s legal adoption battle is fraught with examples of church-state collusion, even after 1952 when legislation for it was finally enacted in Ireland.
Fianna Fáil senator Averil Power, who was adopted from a mother-and-baby home, has called for access rights to be given,