# adoption - Yesterday’s News
# 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.
# adoption - Thursday 1 November, 2018
# Magdalene Laundries
# Magdalene Laundries
Minister Katherine Zappone will deliver a keynote speech at the event which is exploring adoption and institutional abuses.
# adoption - Monday 15 October, 2018
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
A new report on mother and baby homes has recommended the State give those affected a statutory right to access files.
# adoption - Friday 6 July, 2018
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
There may be more people than the 126 identified so far caught up in the St Patrick’s Guild adoption scandal.
# adoption - Thursday 14 June, 2018
# Adoption
# Adoption
Minister Zappone has appointed an independent reviewer to oversee an analysis of tens of thousands of records.
# adoption - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
# Adoption
# Adoption
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.
# adoption - Wednesday 6 June, 2018
# Adoption
# Adoption
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.
# adoption - Thursday 31 May, 2018
# Your Say
# Your Say
The issue of adoption rights has been to the forefront in recent days.
# adoption - Wednesday 30 May, 2018
# Adoption
# Adoption
Yesterday it was revealed that 126 children adopted between 1946 and 1969 weren’t registered correctly.
# False Registrations
# False Registrations
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, “This really needs to be dealt with with the ultimate sensitivity in the period ahead.”
# adoption - Tuesday 29 May, 2018
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
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.
# adoption - Friday 4 May, 2018
# Adoption
# Adoption
It’s similar to laws in at least five other states.
# adoption - Sunday 15 April, 2018
# Voices
# Voices
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.
# adoption - Sunday 21 January, 2018
# PSC
# PSC
“I just burst out crying,” the 50-year-old woman says. “I really think this is the highest form of discrimination.”
# adoption - Monday 25 December, 2017
# Home
# Home
The number of children in Romania’s orphanages has plummeted from more than 100,000 in the 80s to about 7,000.
# adoption - Thursday 21 December, 2017
# Dogs Trust
# Dogs Trust
Dogs Trust is repeating its warning to the public to not give dogs as Christmas presents.
# adoption - Monday 6 November, 2017
# Singled Out
# Singled Out
“This shambolic process is now making me feel like a second class citizen – I’m being treated unequally because I’m adopted.”
# adoption - Thursday 2 November, 2017
# International Agreement
# International Agreement
The adoptions have taken place in the last four years.
# adoption - Monday 9 January, 2017
# Across The Water
# Across The Water
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.
# adoption - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
# Adoption
# Adoption
Former Tánaiste said she found the letter “needlessly offensive” to adopted people and gay people.
# adoption - Saturday 20 August, 2016
# Hey Dad
From The Daily Edge
# Hey Dad
It gets emotional.
# adoption - Thursday 11 August, 2016
# Bring Me Home
From The Daily Edge
# adoption - Sunday 7 August, 2016
# Gobi
From The Daily Edge
# adoption - Saturday 25 June, 2016
# Find My Family
# Find My Family
People trying to find their birth relatives before they die have to wait two years to see a social worker.
# adoption - Thursday 10 March, 2016
# Sob
From The Daily Edge
# Sob
It’s even caught Ellen DeGeneres’ attention.
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