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# illegal-adoption - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
'I was told not to touch him or bond with him because that was for his other mother'
Tressa Reeves was separated from her son for 52 years.
# illegal-adoption - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
'Ireland's history needs to be cleaned up': Calls for scope of Mother and Baby Homes inquiry to be extended
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.
# illegal-adoption - Thursday 18 September, 2014
Heart-wrenching documentary shines light on adoption trade of Irish 'illegitimate children'
Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and America to reveal the moving stories of parents and children.
# illegal-adoption - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
Opinion: It may seem heartless, but we shouldn't fund an inquiry into religious-run homes
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?
# illegal-adoption - Sunday 29 June, 2014
Opinion: Adoption, illegitimate children and ‘the bogey of proselytism’ in Catholic Ireland
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.
# illegal-adoption - Sunday 15 June, 2014
State 'robbing adoptees of their identities' by denying access to birth certs
Fianna Fáil senator Averil Power, who was adopted from a mother-and-baby home, has called for access rights to be given,
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Poll: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins yesterday lit the Áras Christmas tree and said his thoughts are with those in society who are homeless, marginalised and vulnerable.
Addressing an assembled crowd at the Áras, President Higgins said: “We will remember our new Irish community as they recreate precious family traditions here in their new homeland; we will think of those in our society who are homeless, marginalised or vulnerable; of all those who are sick or lonely or feeling sad or worried.
As Christmas draws nearer, charity fundraisers are now taking to the streets to raise much-needed funds for a variety of causes. Christmas is traditionally a time for giving after all.
So, today we want to know: Will you be giving to charity this Christmas?
Poll Results:
Yes (2523)
No (1066)
I can't afford to (477)
I don't know (229)
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Column: The results of the UK general election could hugely impact the Irish border - and not for the first time
By Cormac Moore
A December election does not come around often, writes Cormac Moore.
Saoirse McHugh: Carbon tax is a red herring, the real climate culprit is the global tax system
By Saoirse McHugh
It’s time for governments to fix the global tax system, for the sake of the planet.
How I Spend My Money: A 26-year-old recruiter on €40,000 living in Dublin
By TheJournal.ie reader
The 26-year-old is adjusting after moving out of her family home
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