# adoption - Thursday 1 November, 2018
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
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# adoption - Monday 15 October, 2018
A new report on mother and baby homes has recommended the State give those affected a statutory right to access files.
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# adoption - Friday 6 July, 2018
There may be more people than the 126 identified so far caught up in the St Patrick’s Guild adoption scandal.
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# adoption - Thursday 14 June, 2018
Minister Zappone has appointed an independent reviewer to oversee an analysis of tens of thousands of records.
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# adoption - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
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.
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# adoption - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
Joan Burton TD recalls her personal efforts to obtain information on her adoption and what legal reforms are now necessary after revelations on the faking of birth certificates.
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# adoption - Thursday 31 May, 2018
The issue of adoption rights has been to the forefront in recent days.
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# adoption - Wednesday 30 May, 2018
Yesterday it was revealed that 126 children adopted between 1946 and 1969 weren’t registered correctly.
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, “This really needs to be dealt with with the ultimate sensitivity in the period ahead.”
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# adoption - Tuesday 29 May, 2018
People who were born between 1946 and 1969, who don’t have an adoption order, and were placed by St Patrick’s Guild may be affected by the revelation.
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# adoption - Friday 4 May, 2018
It’s similar to laws in at least five other states.
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# adoption - Sunday 15 April, 2018
Adoption affects more of us than we realise. 900,000 people are directly affected by adoption or close to 20% of the current population of Ireland, writes Paul Redmond.
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# adoption - Sunday 21 January, 2018
“I just burst out crying,” the 50-year-old woman says. “I really think this is the highest form of discrimination.”
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# adoption - Monday 25 December, 2017
The number of children in Romania’s orphanages has plummeted from more than 100,000 in the 80s to about 7,000.
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# adoption - Thursday 21 December, 2017
Dogs Trust is repeating its warning to the public to not give dogs as Christmas presents.
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# adoption - Monday 6 November, 2017
“This shambolic process is now making me feel like a second class citizen – I’m being treated unequally because I’m adopted.”
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# adoption - Thursday 2 November, 2017
The adoptions have taken place in the last four years.
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# adoption - Monday 9 January, 2017
On average 10 Irish children (the vast majority born outside of marriage) per month were adopted by American citizens in the early-to-mid 1950s.
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# adoption - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
Former Tánaiste said she found the letter “needlessly offensive” to adopted people and gay people.
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# adoption - Saturday 20 August, 2016
It gets emotional.
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# adoption - Thursday 11 August, 2016
# adoption - Sunday 7 August, 2016
From The Daily Edge Gobi
No YOU’RE crying.
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# adoption - Saturday 25 June, 2016
People trying to find their birth relatives before they die have to wait two years to see a social worker.
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# adoption - Thursday 10 March, 2016
From The Daily Edge Sob
It’s even caught Ellen DeGeneres’ attention.
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# adoption - Tuesday 26 January, 2016
Alan Stanford says, ‘Knowing you haven’t been forgotten is so important’
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# adoption - Tuesday 19 January, 2016
TV3′s Adoption Stories has followed up on Dan, adopted from Romania when he was three.
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# adoption - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
Nine years after being adopted by Irish parents, Liwen has settled in well.
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# adoption - Thursday 6 August, 2015
Adopted children shouldn’t be prevented from contacting their natural mothers, Irish First Mothers founder Kathy McMahon writes.
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# adoption - Friday 31 July, 2015
My natural mother wants nothing to do with me and so I leave her in peace, however painful it is to do so.
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# adoption - Tuesday 28 July, 2015
Birth parents will be allowed declare if they do not wish to be contacted.
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# adoption - Thursday 9 July, 2015
Paul recognised Maggie immediately when he met her for the first time.
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# adoption - Thursday 25 June, 2015
“I was so happy those days, I was thinking ‘This is definitely right, this is my family’.”
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# adoption - Tuesday 16 June, 2015
There are currently over 6,000 children in the Irish care system but in childhood, as in life, the implication is that younger is better.
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# adoption - Tuesday 19 May, 2015
Solicitor Eileen King writes about why a group of lawyers are advocating a No vote this Friday.
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# adoption - Monday 11 May, 2015
No matter which way you vote, Special Rapporteur for Children, Geoffrey Shannon has said.
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# adoption - Saturday 18 April, 2015
The fact is that some voters have reservations about gay couples adopting children, therefore genuine engagement on this issue is needed.
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# adoption - Saturday 4 April, 2015
The furry little animals can be great pets but they need a lot of love and care.
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# adoption - Sunday 15 March, 2015
The practice is common in parts of Europe and is being considered in the US.
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# adoption - Tuesday 3 March, 2015
“I’m very conscious that I was an unwanted pregnancy.”
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# adoption - Wednesday 18 February, 2015
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
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