# adoption - Tuesday 19 October, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
An Oireachtas committee heard from a number of representative groups today.
# adoption - Tuesday 5 October, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Findings from the Adoptee Voices report were presented to the Oireachtas Children’s committee today.
# adoption - Tuesday 28 September, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Failure to balance the privacy rights of mothers with the identity rights of children could spark legal challenges to new laws, he said.
# Adoption
# Adoption
The minister is set to discuss the Birth Information and Tracing Bill at a meeting of the Oireachtas Children’s Committee this afternoon.
# adoption - Saturday 31 July, 2021
# Forced Adoption
The survivor saw the letter, written in 1980, for the first time last month, Órla Ryan reports "I think ye should all be presented with a medal for your fantastic work," the letter states The woman believes her late mother wrote the letter praising the nuns, pretending to be her
# adoption - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Information And Tracing
# Information And Tracing
Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes have said “the right to truth is key”, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.
# High Court
# High Court
Eight women are taking legal action against the State.
# adoption - Monday 12 July, 2021
# Alternate Report
# Alternate Report
A new report has found “significant evidence” of inhuman treatment and forced adoptions in Mother and Baby Homes.
# adoption - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Terri Harrison
# Terri Harrison
“We were just like machines for them, they definitely dehumanised us.”
# adoption - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Tusla CEO Bernard Gloster has said the provision of counselling should be underpinned by law.
# Identity
# Identity
An adoptee rights group said that Tusla’s apology is a “long overdue acknowledgement” of adoptees’ pain.
# adoption - Sunday 13 June, 2021
# GDPR
A survivor's daughter says the approach is "incomprehensible" and raises "serious questions" The woman's form is "littered with inaccuracies" and "in no way" captures her suffering "In what world is rape or incest a relationship status?"
# adoption - Saturday 12 June, 2021
# Commission
Mother and Baby Home survivors say recent developments have silenced them all over again, Órla Ryan reports One of the women taking legal action against the Commission's findings says she will continue to fight for justice The commissioners have refused the latest invitation to appear before the Oireachtas Children's Committee
# adoption - Sunday 23 May, 2021
# Clergy
# Clergy
Vincent Doyle said time is running out for the government to implement a UN recommendation.
# adoption - Tuesday 11 May, 2021
# Adoptions
The legislation will provide a clear right of access for adopted people and others with questions on their origins to birth certs, birth and early life information. The Bill will have to first undergo pre-legislative scrutiny, which is expected to take place in the coming months. A separate memo addressing the issue of illegal birth registrations was brought to Cabinet this morning.
# adoption - Sunday 2 May, 2021
# Long Lost Sisters
Both women sought to find their birth parents, but instead discovered each other, Órla Ryan writes A social worker 'stumbled across' information that changed their lives forever They say adopted people have a right to their birth certs and medical history
# adoption - Thursday 29 April, 2021
# Abuse
# Abuse
An Garda Síochána has found “insufficient evidence” in the Commission’s report to start any criminal investigations.
# adoption - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Burials Bill
# Burials Bill
The Children’s Committee today discussed legislation that would allow exhumations and re-interment of remains at the sites of former mother and baby institutions.
# adoption - Friday 16 April, 2021
# AMRI
# AMRI
The Association of Mixed Race Irish has asked the United Nations to visit Ireland and investigate institutional racism here.
# adoption - Monday 12 April, 2021
# High Court
# High Court
Lee’s life story was made into an award-winning film, Philomena, in 2013.
# adoption - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Adopted people have called for long-awaited tracing and information legislation to be published as a matter of urgency.
# adoption - Sunday 4 April, 2021
# Redress
# Redress
Some survivors have also called on the government to take legal action against the religious orders who ran the institutions if they refuse to pay financial compensation.
# adoption - Wednesday 10 March, 2021
# Birth Certs
# Birth Certs
The minister has also launched a consultation process for a redress scheme for survivors of Mother And Baby Homes.
# adoption - Tuesday 9 March, 2021
# Birth Registration
# Birth Registration
Minister Roderic O’Gorman says “deep ethical issues” arise in relation to illegal birth registrations, and an inquiry may still happen.
# adoption - Saturday 6 March, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
A private charity with Catholic values should not be given ownership of a State-funded maternity hospital, writes Dr Peter Boylan.
# adoption - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
Beth Wallace wants to commemorate her brother who died, aged five weeks, 49 years ago today.
# adoption - Saturday 6 February, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
“So many lives could be made better, saved, elongated, if doctors knew what they were testing for.”
# adoption - Saturday 30 January, 2021
# Industrial School
# Industrial School
Joe McAveety was born in a mother and baby home and grew up in industrial schools which were rife with physical and sexual abuse.
# adoption - Sunday 17 January, 2021
# Commission
# Commission
Adopted people and survivors of mother and baby homes say forced adoption was widespread, regardless of what the commission says.
# adoption - Saturday 16 January, 2021
# Adoption
# Adoption
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.
# adoption - Friday 15 January, 2021
David Kenny, Assistant Professor of Law at Trinity College, says the legal advice provided to Government in relation to rights of adopted children is flawed and a referendum on the matter is not needed.
# adoption - Monday 11 January, 2021
# Forced Adoption
# Forced Adoption
Lee also said she is “dismayed” that some details from the Mother and Baby Homes report were leaked.
# Bessborough
# Bessborough
Ahead of the commission’s final report being published tomorrow, we’re taking a look back at its interim reports.
# adoption - Thursday 29 October, 2020
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
An adoption rights group said recent debates “have caused huge distress, with severe implications for people’s mental health”.
# adoption - Friday 23 October, 2020
# Opinion
# Opinion
Writer Fionn Davenport says the government’s rushing through of legislation last night condemns survivors of mother and baby homes to 30 more years of darkness.
# adoption - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# No Consensus
# No Consensus
Minister Zappone said she was “personally deeply disappointed” that a consensus could not be reached on the issue.
# adoption - Thursday 9 May, 2019
# Eileen Macken
# Eileen Macken
Eileen Macken spoke to Liveline this afternoon about meeting her mother Elizabeth, who’s 103.
# adoption - Sunday 17 February, 2019
# Public Services Card
# Public Services Card
The woman’s adopted status is not well known and she was unaware she would have to discuss the topic in public.
# adoption - Saturday 12 January, 2019
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
The HSE told Tusla it hadn’t received any direction on this, despite the Department of Children believing it to be the case.
# adoption - Thursday 10 January, 2019
# Arc Adoption
# Arc Adoption
Arc Adoption was licenced to facilitate intercountry adoptions from 2011-2014.
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