# adoption - Monday 14 March, 2022
# St Patrick's Guild
# St Patrick's Guild
The payments will only apply to people whose illegal adoptions were facilitated by St Patrick’s Guild.
# adoption - Sunday 6 March, 2022
# Boarded Out
# Boarded Out
“If you don’t want to compensate people for violating their human rights, don’t violate their human rights.”
# adoption - Friday 21 January, 2022
# Adoption
# Adoption
Adoption rights campaigner Claire McGettrick responds to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill.
# adoption - Wednesday 12 January, 2022
# Adoption
# Adoption
Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman reacts to the new Birth Information and Tracing Bill launched today.
# New Law
# New Law
The long-awaited Birth Information and Tracing Bill will be published today.
# Vaccine Trials
Sally McAndrew says nuns threatened to put her in a vaccine trial when her mother put off signing her adoption papers 'Every day you don’t sign, your daughter is getting a needle in her arm and will be screaming in pain' Sally says her biological father received her home address when he paid £5,000 to nuns, Órla Ryan reports
# adoption - Friday 24 December, 2021
# Burials Bill
The site of the former mother and baby home may be excavated five years after a "significant" quantity of human remains were found Survivors, relatives and archaeologists have called for the Tuam site to be excavated urgently, Órla Ryan reports The long-awaited Burials Bill and the Birth Information and Tracing Bill are expected to be published in the next two months
# adoption - Saturday 11 December, 2021
# Netherlands
# Netherlands
The woman who set up a register to reconnect people who passed through the Mother and Baby Home system in the Netherlands wants to share her knowledge with Ireland.
# adoption - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Response To Redress
# Response To Redress
Survivors’ groups gathered at Leinster House today to call for the redress scheme to be amended to better meet the needs of survivors.
# adoption - Monday 22 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
People who were born in a mother and baby institution but spent less than six months there are excluded from the scheme.
# adoption - Sunday 21 November, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
The Government's €800 million Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme was unveiled during the week Women say basing compensation on their length of stay in an institution is "absolutely disgraceful" The exclusion of many people born in institutions is a "divide and conquer" strategy, survivors tell Órla Ryan
# adoption - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
# Mother And Baby Homes
# Mother And Baby Homes
The women are seeking to have elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes quashed.
# adoption - Tuesday 16 November, 2021
# Commission
# Commission
The Cabinet signed off on the details of a long-awaited redress scheme today.
# Compensation
# Compensation
The Cabinet is set to sign off on the details of a long-awaited redress scheme later today.
# adoption - Saturday 13 November, 2021
# Adoption
Maria Arbuckle was sent from Armagh to St Patrick's mother and baby home in Dublin in 1981 She spent the next four decades trying to find her son, Paul A Facebook friend request earlier this year changed her life forever, Órla Ryan reports
# adoption - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Tuam
# Tuam
The proposed legislation raises “serious concerns in relation to the State’s compliance with its international legal obligations”, the groups note.
# 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.
Cloudy, rain
Max: 16 °C
Min: 9 °C
Cloudy, a shower late in the afternoon
Max: 17 °C
Min: 7 °C
Partly sunny
Max: 18 °C
Min: 10 °C
