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Publication date |
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| Woman who claims she was forced to give up her baby for adoption, settles High Court case |
16 October 2025 |
| Welcome to the website for the Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse |
12 August 2025 |
| Irish missionary and child, 3, among nine kidnapped from Haiti orphanage |
5 August 2025 |
| Best-practice framework and a roadmap for the reform of domestic adoption in Ireland project launched by Department. |
20 June 2025 |
| Best-practice framework and a roadmap for the reform of domestic adoption in Ireland project launched by Department. |
20 June 2025 |
| The Lived Experience of Intercountry Adopted Adults in Ireland Technical Report |
1 June 2025 |
| State faces lawsuit calling for 'ludicrous' Mother and Baby Home redress scheme to be extended |
14 October 2024 |
| US academic believes he is the first person to gain Irish citizenship based on DNA test |
21 July 2024 |
| Consultation on mother-and-baby home inquiry to begin |
25 June 2024 |
| High Court approves teen’s adoption against birth mother’s wishes - Judge says birth mother’s love for her child and her hopes for and emotional bonds with her can never be severed |
12 June 2024 |
| DÁIL PASSES BILL WHICH FACILITATES INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SURROGACY |
30 May 2024 |
| Woman challenges adoption body's decision regarding children born through surrogacy |
4 March 2024 |
| Abused foster children: Europe calls for compensation to be paid to victims |
26 January 2024 |
| Delay and frustration in adoption law's first year |
3 October 2023 |
| 2023: Sad days for ‘adoptable’ children in Greece |
19 August 2023 |
| ATTWIN Position Paper: |
19 July 2023 |
| Possible mass baby graves at Mother and Baby Home site could be 'worse than Tuam' - Irish Mirror Online |
9 July 2023 |
| Intercountry Adoption in Ireland: Experiences, Supports, Challenges Country Briefings Report 5: Ethiopia |
July 2023 |
| Fiona Cahill 29 June 2023 · My beautiful brave mother |
29 June 2023 |
| A new digital piece a BBC team put together this afternoon everyone wants to do everything they can |
29 June 2023 |
| Birth mother’s appeal against daughter’s adoption dismissed by Supreme Court |
24 May 2023 |
| Mother-and-baby group pulls out of forum meetings |
8 May 2023 |
| What is Illegal Adoption? |
4 May 2023 |
| Dubliner adopted to New York at birth reunites with Irish family 63 years later |
29 April 2023 |
| Illegal adoptees receive once-off €3k payment |
15 April 2023 |
| Illegal adoptees receive once-off €3k payment |
15 April 2023 |
| No policy barrier to recognising foreign adoption orders for children born via surrogacy, Supreme Court rules |
30 March 2023 |
| Scheme has 'triggered more trauma' for mother and baby homes survivors |
6 March 2023 |
| ‘Stolen’: Dublin Review - Margo Harkin’s documentary about mother and baby homes is essential viewing for Irish society |
2 March 2023 |
| Widespread forced adoption may be able to help with a major overseas criminal investigation | 7NEWS |
25 February 2023 |
| Northern Ireland’s forced adoption investigation lands on Australian shores |
22 January 2023 |
| Illegal adoption: ‘My search for the twin I was told had died’ |
21 January 2023 |
| 'Four lives were ripped apart': Woman plans legal action over mother's exclusion from redress |
15 January 2023 |
| Questions & Replies: Social Development |
3 January 2023 |
| Domestic surrogacy central to Government policy paper |
16 December 2022 |
| Gardaí investigating 20 alleged crimes related to Mother and Baby Homes |
27 November 2022 |
| Secret Identities |
26 October 2022 |
| O’Gorman: Mother and baby homes report revealed 'truth of what happened' in institutions |
22 October 2022 |
| '€5,000 for your child being taken? You would get multiples of that for a whiplash injury' |
19 October 2022 |
| Mother and Baby Homes: Some consequences - like testimonies - are more important than others |
8 October 2022 |
| Ireland Opens Decades of Secret Records to Adoptees |
7 October 2022 |
| Mixed-raced people had 'childhood stolen' in Irish institutions & redress must be extended, UN says |
23 September 2022 |
| '100 years of injustice': Survivors call for mother and baby home redress scheme to be extended |
15 September 2022 |
| New adoption legislation: ‘I just wanted to understand where I came from’ |
7 August 2022 |
| New Irish adoption law opens wounds as 900 register to trace birth families |
4 August 2022 |
| UK owes apology for ‘grave wrong’ of forced adoptions |
15 July 2022 |
| 6-month rule and legal waiver must be scrapped from Mother & Baby Home redress plan, committee says |
12 July 2022 |
| Woman who put her baby in a bin after giving birth receives three month jail sentence |
5 July 2022 |
| Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 |
1 July 2022 |
| Adopted people will finally get access to records after President signs Bill into law |
30 June 2022 |
| Judge refuses to approve girl’s adoption by foster mother as he heavily criticises Child and Family Agency |
27 June 2022 |
| Too Asian To Be Irish, Too Irish To Be Asian |
22 June 2022 |
| Extract: 'My mother was given a half hour’s notice to get me ready to have me taken from her' |
12 June 2022 |
| Use of word 'abandonment' in adoption laws causing 'unnecessary hurt', judge says |
12 May 2022 |
| ‘A nun called me a destroyer of lives’: how adoption rights activist Susan Lohan fought the Irish establishment |
9 March 2022 |
| An Industrial School Survivor Demands Answers on Why He Was Incarcerated at Age 11 |
2 March 2022 |
| Police probe 29 allegations around mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland |
28 February 2022 |
| The night our family rescued 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry |
27 February 2022 |
| €225,000 awarded to man born in mother and baby home from estranged birth mother’s estate |
9 February 2022 |
| Court approves child’s adoption by foster mother in ‘life affirming case’ |
13 January 2022 |
| Woman who spent 16 years trying to trace son ‘elated’ by adoption move |
13 January 2022 |
| Taoiseach rules out reopening redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors |
31 December 2021 |
| Man born in mother and baby home to sue State over redress |
5 December 2021 |
| Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma' |
22 November 2021 |
| 'She had no choice': High Court told Philomena Lee did not consent to her son being adopted |
18 November 2021 |
| Govt made a 'dogs' dinner of mother and baby homes redress scheme, says survivor |
17 November 2021 |
| 'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court |
17 November 2021 |
| Mother-and-baby homes inquiry to be set up in Northern Ireland |
16 November 2021 |
| 'Can you put a price on trauma?': Redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes ready |
16 November 2021 |
| Mother and Baby Homes: 34,000 survivors eligible for compensation in €800m redress scheme |
16 November 2021 |
| Tuam mother and baby home families doubt Roderic O’Gorman’s vow on exhumations |
14 November 2021 |
| Illegal adoptees 'forced to break the law' by using their falsified birth certificates |
19 October 2021 |
| Term ‘birth mother’ to be dropped from adoption legislation |
27 September 2021 |
| Residential Child and Youth care in a Developing World |
3 September 2021 |
| The hidden face of international adoptions and mothers' rights in Vietnam |
30 August 2021 |
| Woman's signature forged on letter saying nuns from Mother and Baby Home 'deserve a medal' |
31 July 2021 |
| Mother and Baby Homes: Two test cases to be heard by High Court later this year |
27 July 2021 |
| Mother and Baby Homes: Three test cases could be used as survivors seek judicial review |
13 July 2021 |
| An Athlone woman’s Mother and Baby Homes story |
3 July 2021 |
| JURI Committee Public Hearing Child protection under EU law |
28 June 2021 |
| The Gist: Survivors refuse to stay on Mute |
12 June 2021 |
| Mother-and-baby home redress proposals due soon |
12 June 2021 |
| High Court approves adoption of girl without consulting birth father |
4 June 2021 |
| ‘A culture of shame’: Reforming Ireland’s adoption system |
24 May 2021 |
| Adopted people to get access to birth certs irrespective of birth mother’s wishes |
21 May 2021 |
| Ireland’s shame: reforming an adoption system marked by secrecy and trauma |
14 May 2021 |
| 'The British could not do to our Martina what her comrades have done,' say family of Martina Anderson |
11 May 2021 |
| Number of children sent overseas for adoptions even higher than previously thought |
8 May 2021 |
| 'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes |
14 April 2021 |
| 'The content of the emails sent to the Taoiseach by survivors is truly unsettling' |
7 April 2021 |
| 'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day |
4 April 2021 |
| 'Spend the leftover €11.5m on investigation into adoption files' |
27 March 2021 |
| Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme |
17 March 2021 |
| Adopted in 1953, daughter finds her Irish mother still alive |
12 March 2021 |
| Adopted people suing St Patrick’s Guild claim ‘kidnapping’, ‘forgery’ |
11 March 2021 |
| Illegal adoptions: ‘Doing nothing’ not option for State inquiry |
11 March 2021 |
| Up to 20,000 adoption files could relate to irregular birth registrations – report |
10 March 2021 |
| At least 14 illegal adoption cases at ‘advanced stage’ in High Court |
5 March 2021 |
| Illegal adoption revelations are 'shocking', taoiseach says |
4 March 2021 |
| ‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take in |
3 March 2021 |
| Son of Éamon De Valera facilitated illegal adoptions through his medical practice |
3 March 2021 |
| 'I don't know who I am' - woman told of her illegal adoption aged 54 |
1 March 2021 |
| Social Democrats vote unanimously to push government towards clear redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors |
27 February 2021 |
| Abused foster children 'entitled to redress' - Special Rapporteur |
26 February 2021 |
| Irish mother and baby homes: Inquiry 'backup tapes' discovered |
21 February 2021 |
| Varadkar says he was 'quite surprised' that mother and baby home testimony was destroyed |
4 February 2021 |
| Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs |
30 January 2021 |
| Judge criticises nine-year delay in adoption process for four Indian children to Irish parents |
29 January 2021 |
| Judge criticises 9-year delay in making adoption orders |
29 January 2021 |
| Children's Committee wants Chair of Mother and Baby Homes Commission to answer questions |
28 January 2021 |
| Catholic and Church of Ireland primates express shame over mother and baby homes |
27 January 2021 |
| Report into Northern Ireland's mother and baby homes to be published today |
26 January 2021 |
| Actress Jane Russell's adoption of Irish baby nearly ended her career |
26 January 2021 |
| Adopted people have an unequivocal human right to their identity |
19 January 2021 |
| 'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted' |
17 January 2021 |
| ‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’ |
16 January 2021 |
| 'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30' |
16 January 2021 |
| Mother and baby home adoptions may have been legal but that does not make them right |
16 January 2021 |
| Baby home survivor brands Taoiseach and Tánaiste 'sickening double act' |
15 January 2021 |
| Adoption rights group welcomes AG advice that no referendum needed |
15 January 2021 |
| Officials designing mother and baby homes redress will not want past to be repeated |
15 January 2021 |
| Trauma of women compelled to give up their babies for adoption laid bare in Irish academic’s research |
14 January 2021 |
| Hollywood star’s search for a baby brought focus on Irish adoptions |
13 January 2021 |
| 'The shame was not theirs – it was ours': Full text of Taoiseach's apology to mother and baby home survivors |
13 January 2021 |
| Girl, 15, tied up during 'horrific labour' at Sean Ross |
13 January 2021 |
| Mother and baby homes: Cases of underage pregnant girls were not referred to Gardaí |
12 January 2021 |
| Allegations that large sums were paid to adopt children ‘impossible to prove’ |
12 January 2021 |
| Catherine Corless: ‘Boarded out’ children from Tuam Mother and Baby Home were delivered like a puppy to their new owners |
12 January 2021 |
| 'I unreservedly apologise': Archbishop Martin accepts Church's part in mother and baby home scandal |
12 January 2021 |
| 5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes |
12 January 2021 |
| Adoption Authority 'cannot lawfully refuse to register Mexican adoptions of two children' |
19 October 2020 |
| Adoption Authority 'cannot lawfully refuse to register Mexican adoptions of two children' |
19 October 2020 |
| European Commission to investigate mother and baby homes |
9 October 2020 |
| The changed face of inter-country adoption post-2010 |
8 January 2020 |
| Attorney General's advice on access to birth details 'incorrect' |
2 December 2019 |
| Calls for full-scale inquiry into illegal adoptions in Ireland |
29 November 2019 |
| High Court: Adoption Authority granted order dismissing personal injury proceedings |
18 September 2019 |
| Damages claim by woman who gave up daughter for adoption |
5 September 2019 |
| Ireland’s foreign adoption clearance ‘not safe' |
19 August 2019 |
| Vietnam is top country for foreign adoptions |
21 July 2019 |
| Vietnam is top country for foreign adoptions |
20 July 2019 |
| Women who gave up their children for adoption should not be made to suffer twice |
4 July 2019 |
| Irish widow reunited with daughter given up for adoption nearly 50 years ago after reading horoscope every week |
24 June 2019 |
| Ireland left horrified by Ana Kriégel’s murder in a derelict farmhouse |
23 June 2019 |
| Zappone’s haste risks further offending adopted people |
14 June 2019 |
| Illegal adoption scandal to spark a raft of lawsuits as clamour for answers grows |
8 June 2019 |
| Mother’s shock as she discovers woman she raised is not her daughter |
8 June 2019 |
| Minister publishes detailed implementation plan for First 5, the whole-of-Government strategy for babies, young children and the |
22 May 2019 |
| Government criticised for 'hypocrisy and dishonesty' over illegal adoption inquiry |
17 May 2019 |
| UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children raises serious concerns regarding Ireland’s history of illegal adoption practices |
23 April 2019 |
| UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children raises serious concerns regarding Ireland’s history of illegal adoption practices |
23 April 2019 |
| ‘Urgent need’ for probe of forced adoption |
7 March 2019 |
| Adoption bill’s privacy provisions to be revised |
27 February 2019 |
| Adoption law changes approved by Cabinet |
27 February 2019 |
| These Religious Prisons Turned Orphans, Young Girls, and Pregnant Women into Slaves Inside Convent Walls |
22 February 2019 |
| State to repay clients of failed overseas adoption agency |
9 January 2019 |
| Adoption and Child Migration in U.S. History |
6 November 2018 |
| Finally, Ireland is listening to long-ignored campaigners |
31 May 2018 |
| Tusla knew of illegal adoptions in 2016 |
31 May 2018 |
| Adoption campaigners urge immediate probe |
31 May 2018 |
| State’s U-turn on illegal adoptions |
30 May 2018 |
| 35 US-born children adopted by Irish families |
2 November 2017 |
| Children can now be adopted by their foster carers after 18 months |
14 July 2017 |
| Serious child protection failings detected in study of Garda |
29 May 2017 |
| Accessing adoption files and information on the biological family | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights |
2017 |
| Staying Connected: Khaled Quzmar |
1 November 2016 |
| Staying Connected: Khaled Quzmar |
1 November 2016 |
| Intercountry agreement on adoptions from the Philippines |
18 August 2016 |
| Former adoption agency owes clients €190,000 |
4 July 2016 |
| European Parliament: Briefing - Adoption of children in the European Union |
1 June 2016 |
| HSE knew of ‘quasi illegal’ Bessborough adoptions in 2011 |
16 December 2015 |
| Exit from Adoption Sector |
24 November 2015 |
| COUPLES LEFT IN LIMBO AS ADOPTION AGENCY CLOSES |
1 November 2015 |
| Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin. |
11 October 2015 |
| The United States and Vietnam are emerging as the top countries for Irish people adopting abroad |
28 August 2015 |
| SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Fears over ‘trafficking’ of children to the US |
3 June 2015 |
| Long-term foster kids now eligible for adoption |
25 April 2015 |
| No appetite to uncover scale of illegal adoption scandal |
13 April 2015 |
| 6,000 adoptions from six mother and baby homes across 23 years |
17 July 2014 |
| Irish gov confirms 2,000 babies illegally sent to US for adoption |
17 July 2014 |
| Authority admits thousands of adoptions illegal |
7 July 2014 |
| Youtube Nigel Cantwell: Regaining Lost Ground (Ireland) |
11 June 2014 |
| Vacant beds for children in care cost taxpayer €20m |
22 April 2014 |
| Florida adoption ‘ethics’ warning |
14 April 2014 |
| Philomena star Judi Dench urged to back inquiry into 'stolen baby' scandal |
16 November 2013 |
| Couples looking to adopt in Russia may lose children |
20 October 2013 |
| Agreement with US will 'open door' in adoption process |
4 September 2013 |
| Agreement would allow adoption from USA |
3 September 2013 |
| Adoption process in Ireland now ‘full of fear and desperation’ |
11 June 2013 |
| MOUNT ANVILLE ALUMNI | Michael Fisher's News |
6 June 2013 |
| Profile - Catherine Day - Village Magazine |
3 May 2013 |
| DOS Notice: U.S. – Ireland Operating Arrangement (US outgoing adoptions) |
3 May 2013 |
| Under Child Adoption Threat, Ireland Drops Magnitsky List |
2 May 2013 |
| Family takes case over refusal to recognise daughter’s adoption |
26 April 2013 |
| Irish Adoption Authority 'refuses to recognise' Mexican children adopted by Irish parents |
25 April 2013 |
| Irish couples keen to adopt Indian kids |
21 March 2013 |
| GP ‘had scores of children illegally adopted': Lack of paper trail has left the adoptees unable to find their mothers |
6 January 2013 |
| Great business that corrupts authorities; Find Foundation estimates there are 500,000 missing |
16 December 2012 |
| Mexico Authorities Unravel Child Trafficking Ring |
27 September 2012 |
| Fresh scandal erupts over Irish children sold to America for adoption |
5 September 2012 |
| Irish flock to Florida for child adoption opportunities |
27 May 2012 |
| Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring |
29 February 2012 |
| Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring |
29 February 2012 |
| Mexican adoptions not affected |
30 January 2012 |
| Adoption law to help children of married parents |
30 January 2012 |
| Fitzgerald challenged on adoptions |
27 January 2012 |
| Child welfare ruling may change adoption regime |
28 December 2011 |
| Irish adoptions from Vietnam to resume |
11 November 2011 |
| Adoption agency funded despite Vietnam suspension |
10 October 2011 |
| Authority to travel for talks on adoption agreements |
10 October 2011 |
| Justice for Magdalenes has welcomed a recommendation by a UN committee for a statutory inquiry into the Magdalene laundries. |
6 June 2011 |
| First of approved adoption agencies to open |
30 May 2011 |
| Adoptions from Vietnam look likely to resume |
30 May 2011 |
| No charges two years after Ryan report into child abuse |
30 May 2011 |
| Minister asks Adoption Authority to assess situation in Vietnam |
12 April 2011 |
| Adoption body sent delegation to US |
25 February 2011 |
| MEPs demand easing of adoption restrictions |
26 January 2011 |
| Two resign from adoption authority |
31 December 2010 |
| Romanian adoptees coming of age |
29 November 2010 |
| Call for inquiry into Magdalene laundries |
10 November 2010 |
| Pressuring countries on adoption 'can lead to trafficking' |
2 November 2010 |
| Foreign adoptions - History (Romanian adoptions not recognised) |
November 2010 |
| New Adoption Authority appointed |
1 November 2010 |
| Vietnam adoption procedures treat children as 'commodities' |
31 October 2010 |
| Adoption Act will provide more partner countries |
30 October 2010 |
| Russians threaten adoption hold-ups over spies |
12 October 2010 |
| Address by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Barry Andrews, T.D.at International Adoption Association Conference |
9 October 2010 |
| Irish couples may adopt from three new countries |
13 September 2010 |
| Russia calls halt to Irish adoptions |
5 September 2010 |
| Adoption fees 'misleading' |
23 August 2010 |
| Scandals at home and abroad have shaken board |
14 August 2010 |
| Legislation to allow adoption of married parents' children |
7 July 2010 |
| Vietnam law change may allow adoptions to resume |
27 June 2010 |
| New adoption agency to bid for clients in coming weeks |
14 June 2010 |
| Report aims to clear adoption group of impropriety |
9 June 2010 |
| Written Answers Irish Parliament |
1 June 2010 |
| Adoption agencies to be struck off for ‘wrongdoing’ |
21 May 2010 |
| Delay to adoption process measures |
19 April 2010 |
| Errant priests’ secret children to sue church |
18 April 2010 |
| Andrews asks parents to send adoption forms to Russia |
13 April 2010 |
| Russian Ministry of Education and Science releases new list of homestudy agencies with missing postplacement reports |
10 April 2010 |
| Russia puts Ireland on its blacklist for adoptions |
10 April 2010 |
| Minister seeks to reopen Vietnam for Irish adoptions |
4 April 2010 |
| Forum on new agency/fees |
April 2010 |
| Dans les coulisses de l'adoption internationale. Visite d'une "usine à bébés" au Vietnam |
25 February 2010 |
| STOLEN TO ORDER |
16 January 2010 |
| A new home for baby offered to me for $10,000. |
5 January 2010 |
| Ethiopian adoption agreement |
9 December 2009 |
| Nun Criticised in Abuse Report Identified As Nora Wall |
30 November 2009 |
| Baby broker: Mrs Tang sells newborns to the orphanage next door |
28 November 2009 |
| Vietnam adoption agreement suspended |
25 November 2009 |
| Adoption Bill includes Hague protections |
19 November 2009 |
| Embettled adoption agency defends its role |
25 October 2009 |
| Ahern warns of 'anti-adoption bias' |
17 October 2009 |
| Minister examines UN reports pointing to concerns at Vietnamese adoptions |
6 October 2009 |
| Adoption agency approved in principle |
October 2009 |
| Senator calls for agency to assist 20 adoptions from Vietnam |
23 September 2009 |
| Adoptions from Vietnam may not be recognised, says board |
21 September 2009 |
| The Catholic church sold my child |
19 September 2009 |
| FG request interim Vietnam adoption agreement |
19 September 2009 |
| Delegation to seek deal on adoptions from Vietnam |
28 June 2009 |
| Organisation bids to cut adoption times |
21 June 2009 |
| Whatever happened to Jane's baby? |
14 June 2009 |
| Whatever happened to Jane's baby? |
14 June 2009 |
| Whatever happened to Jane's baby? |
14 June 2009 |
| Adoptions Brutal Barriers |
24 May 2009 |
| Don't throw the baby out with the bath water |
19 May 2009 |
| So you want to adopt a baby ... |
2 January 2008 |
| A damning study of inter-country adoption, Irish style |
19 June 2007 |
| Couples angry at sex questions in adoption process |
22 October 2006 |
| A Russian baby? That’ll be €17,000 |
18 December 2005 |
| Mother Cries At News Of Twin's Death Mar 24 2004 |
24 March 2004 |
| Fine Gael leader lobbied for Romanian adoption |
23 February 2004 |
| Does going west really mean a better life? |
5 January 2003 |
| Irishwoman to become head of EC environment department |
24 January 2002 |
| If this little girl goes back to Romania she'll die.. |
27 August 2001 |
| New Romanian laws facilitate child adoption by Irish families |
16 September 2000 |
| MEETING IN THE HAGUE WITH TABACARU - EUROPEAN CENTRAL AGENCIES |
11 October 1999 |
| Weekly Update (Adopter from US - THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED) |
1 March 1998 |
| Board right to appeal Chinese ruling |
26 April 1996 |
| Tuam Ireland's secret burial shame By Chris Page |
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| Births not registered and forged adoption signatures at mother and baby homes |
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| The terrifying power of the State over families: Ireland beware |
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| St. Patrick's Guild was involved in the secret export of 572 children to the US |
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