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Concerns raised over ‘exclusionary and re-traumatising’ Mother and Baby home redress scheme 2026 Feb 5
Mother and baby home survivors challenge bishop to help them find over 1,000 children buried there 2025 Dec 30
Macabre find is made during excavation at Irish house of horrors mother and baby burial site where 800 corpses are feared to be buried 2025 Nov 7
Woman who claims she was forced to give up her baby for adoption, settles High Court case 2025 Oct 16
Welcome to the website for the Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse 2025 Aug 12
Irish missionary and child, 3, among nine kidnapped from Haiti orphanage 2025 Aug 5
Best-practice framework and a roadmap for the reform of domestic adoption in Ireland project launched by Department. 2025 Jun 20
Best-practice framework and a roadmap for the reform of domestic adoption in Ireland project launched by Department. 2025 Jun 20
Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes risk losing UK benefits over compensation 2025 Jun 10
The Lived Experience of Intercountry Adopted Adults in Ireland Technical Report 2025 Jun 1
State faces lawsuit calling for 'ludicrous' Mother and Baby Home redress scheme to be extended 2024 Oct 14
US academic believes he is the first person to gain Irish citizenship based on DNA test 2024 Jul 21
Consultation on mother-and-baby home inquiry to begin 2024 Jun 25
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 2024 Jun 12
DÁIL PASSES BILL WHICH FACILITATES INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SURROGACY 2024 May 30
Woman challenges adoption body's decision regarding children born through surrogacy 2024 Mar 4
Abused foster children: Europe calls for compensation to be paid to victims 2024 Jan 26
Delay and frustration in adoption law's first year 2023 Oct 3
2023: Sad days for ‘adoptable’ children in Greece 2023 Aug 19
ATTWIN Position Paper: 2023 Jul 19
Possible mass baby graves at Mother and Baby Home site could be 'worse than Tuam' - Irish Mirror Online 2023 Jul 9
Intercountry Adoption in Ireland: Experiences, Supports, Challenges Country Briefings Report 5: Ethiopia 2023 Jul
Fiona Cahill 29 June 2023 · My beautiful brave mother 2023 Jun 29
A new digital piece a BBC team put together this afternoon everyone wants to do everything they can 2023 Jun 29
Birth mother’s appeal against daughter’s adoption dismissed by Supreme Court 2023 May 24
Mother-and-baby group pulls out of forum meetings 2023 May 8
What is Illegal Adoption? 2023 May 4
Dubliner adopted to New York at birth reunites with Irish family 63 years later 2023 Apr 29
Illegal adoptees receive once-off €3k payment 2023 Apr 15
Illegal adoptees receive once-off €3k payment 2023 Apr 15
No policy barrier to recognising foreign adoption orders for children born via surrogacy, Supreme Court rules 2023 Mar 30
Scheme has 'triggered more trauma' for mother and baby homes survivors 2023 Mar 6
‘Stolen’: Dublin Review - Margo Harkin’s documentary about mother and baby homes is essential viewing for Irish society 2023 Mar 2
Widespread forced adoption may be able to help with a major overseas criminal investigation | 7NEWS 2023 Feb 25
Northern Ireland’s forced adoption investigation lands on Australian shores 2023 Jan 22
Illegal adoption: ‘My search for the twin I was told had died’ 2023 Jan 21
'Four lives were ripped apart': Woman plans legal action over mother's exclusion from redress 2023 Jan 15
Questions & Replies: Social Development 2023 Jan 3
Domestic surrogacy central to Government policy paper 2022 Dec 16
Gardaí investigating 20 alleged crimes related to Mother and Baby Homes 2022 Nov 27
Secret Identities 2022 Oct 26
O’Gorman: Mother and baby homes report revealed 'truth of what happened' in institutions 2022 Oct 22
'€5,000 for your child being taken? You would get multiples of that for a whiplash injury' 2022 Oct 19
Mother and Baby Homes: Some consequences - like testimonies - are more important than others 2022 Oct 8
Ireland Opens Decades of Secret Records to Adoptees 2022 Oct 7
Mixed-raced people had 'childhood stolen' in Irish institutions & redress must be extended, UN says 2022 Sep 23
'100 years of injustice': Survivors call for mother and baby home redress scheme to be extended 2022 Sep 15
New adoption legislation: ‘I just wanted to understand where I came from’ 2022 Aug 7
New Irish adoption law opens wounds as 900 register to trace birth families 2022 Aug 4
UK owes apology for ‘grave wrong’ of forced adoptions 2022 Jul 15
6-month rule and legal waiver must be scrapped from Mother & Baby Home redress plan, committee says 2022 Jul 12
Woman who put her baby in a bin after giving birth receives three month jail sentence 2022 Jul 5
Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 2022 Jul 1
Adopted people will finally get access to records after President signs Bill into law 2022 Jun 30
Judge refuses to approve girl’s adoption by foster mother as he heavily criticises Child and Family Agency 2022 Jun 27
Too Asian To Be Irish, Too Irish To Be Asian 2022 Jun 22
Extract: 'My mother was given a half hour’s notice to get me ready to have me taken from her' 2022 Jun 12
Use of word 'abandonment' in adoption laws causing 'unnecessary hurt', judge says 2022 May 12
‘A nun called me a destroyer of lives’: how adoption rights activist Susan Lohan fought the Irish establishment 2022 Mar 9
An Industrial School Survivor Demands Answers on Why He Was Incarcerated at Age 11 2022 Mar 2
Police probe 29 allegations around mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland 2022 Feb 28
The night our family rescued 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry 2022 Feb 27
€225,000 awarded to man born in mother and baby home from estranged birth mother’s estate 2022 Feb 9
Court approves child’s adoption by foster mother in ‘life affirming case’ 2022 Jan 13
Woman who spent 16 years trying to trace son ‘elated’ by adoption move 2022 Jan 13
Taoiseach rules out reopening redress scheme for mother and baby home survivors 2021 Dec 31
Man born in mother and baby home to sue State over redress 2021 Dec 5
Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma' 2021 Nov 22
'She had no choice': High Court told Philomena Lee did not consent to her son being adopted 2021 Nov 18
Govt made a 'dogs' dinner of mother and baby homes redress scheme, says survivor 2021 Nov 17
'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court 2021 Nov 17
Mother-and-baby homes inquiry to be set up in Northern Ireland 2021 Nov 16
'Can you put a price on trauma?': Redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes ready 2021 Nov 16
Mother and Baby Homes: 34,000 survivors eligible for compensation in €800m redress scheme 2021 Nov 16
Tuam mother and baby home families doubt Roderic O’Gorman’s vow on exhumations 2021 Nov 14
Illegal adoptees 'forced to break the law' by using their falsified birth certificates 2021 Oct 19
Term ‘birth mother’ to be dropped from adoption legislation 2021 Sep 27
Residential Child and Youth care in a Developing World 2021 Sep 3
The hidden face of international adoptions and mothers' rights in Vietnam 2021 Aug 30
Woman's signature forged on letter saying nuns from Mother and Baby Home 'deserve a medal' 2021 Jul 31
Mother and Baby Homes: Two test cases to be heard by High Court later this year 2021 Jul 27
Mother and Baby Homes: Three test cases could be used as survivors seek judicial review 2021 Jul 13
An Athlone woman’s Mother and Baby Homes story 2021 Jul 3
JURI Committee Public Hearing Child protection under EU law 2021 Jun 28
The Gist: Survivors refuse to stay on Mute 2021 Jun 12
Mother-and-baby home redress proposals due soon 2021 Jun 12
High Court approves adoption of girl without consulting birth father 2021 Jun 4
‘A culture of shame’: Reforming Ireland’s adoption system 2021 May 24
Adopted people to get access to birth certs irrespective of birth mother’s wishes 2021 May 21
Ireland’s shame: reforming an adoption system marked by secrecy and trauma 2021 May 14
'The British could not do to our Martina what her comrades have done,' say family of Martina Anderson 2021 May 11
Number of children sent overseas for adoptions even higher than previously thought 2021 May 8
'There can be no more messing about': Push for law to allow exhumations at mother and baby homes 2021 Apr 14
'The content of the emails sent to the Taoiseach by survivors is truly unsettling' 2021 Apr 7
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day 2021 Apr 4
'Spend the leftover €11.5m on investigation into adoption files' 2021 Mar 27
Department says consulting firm was hired due to 'urgency' in setting up mother and baby home redress scheme 2021 Mar 17
Adopted in 1953, daughter finds her Irish mother still alive 2021 Mar 12
Adopted people suing St Patrick’s Guild claim ‘kidnapping’, ‘forgery’ 2021 Mar 11
Illegal adoptions: ‘Doing nothing’ not option for State inquiry 2021 Mar 11
Up to 20,000 adoption files could relate to irregular birth registrations – report 2021 Mar 10
At least 14 illegal adoption cases at ‘advanced stage’ in High Court 2021 Mar 5
Illegal adoption revelations are 'shocking', taoiseach says 2021 Mar 4
‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take in 2021 Mar 3
Son of Éamon De Valera facilitated illegal adoptions through his medical practice 2021 Mar 3
'I don't know who I am' - woman told of her illegal adoption aged 54 2021 Mar 1
Social Democrats vote unanimously to push government towards clear redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors 2021 Feb 27
Abused foster children 'entitled to redress' - Special Rapporteur 2021 Feb 26
Irish mother and baby homes: Inquiry 'backup tapes' discovered 2021 Feb 21
Varadkar says he was 'quite surprised' that mother and baby home testimony was destroyed 2021 Feb 4
Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs 2021 Jan 30
Judge criticises 9-year delay in making adoption orders 2021 Jan 29
Judge criticises nine-year delay in adoption process for four Indian children to Irish parents 2021 Jan 29
Children's Committee wants Chair of Mother and Baby Homes Commission to answer questions 2021 Jan 28
Catholic and Church of Ireland primates express shame over mother and baby homes 2021 Jan 27
Actress Jane Russell's adoption of Irish baby nearly ended her career 2021 Jan 26
Report into Northern Ireland's mother and baby homes to be published today 2021 Jan 26
Adopted people have an unequivocal human right to their identity 2021 Jan 19
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted' 2021 Jan 17
Mother and baby home adoptions may have been legal but that does not make them right 2021 Jan 16
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30' 2021 Jan 16
‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’ 2021 Jan 16
Adoption rights group welcomes AG advice that no referendum needed 2021 Jan 15
Officials designing mother and baby homes redress will not want past to be repeated 2021 Jan 15
Baby home survivor brands Taoiseach and Tánaiste 'sickening double act' 2021 Jan 15
Trauma of women compelled to give up their babies for adoption laid bare in Irish academic’s research 2021 Jan 14
Hollywood star’s search for a baby brought focus on Irish adoptions 2021 Jan 13
'The shame was not theirs – it was ours': Full text of Taoiseach's apology to mother and baby home survivors 2021 Jan 13
Girl, 15, tied up during 'horrific labour' at Sean Ross 2021 Jan 13
Allegations that large sums were paid to adopt children ‘impossible to prove’ 2021 Jan 12
'I unreservedly apologise': Archbishop Martin accepts Church's part in mother and baby home scandal 2021 Jan 12
Mother and baby homes: Cases of underage pregnant girls were not referred to Gardaí 2021 Jan 12
5-year investigation finds at least 9,000 children died in Ireland's mother and baby homes 2021 Jan 12
Catherine Corless: ‘Boarded out’ children from Tuam Mother and Baby Home were delivered like a puppy to their new owners 2021 Jan 12
Adoption Authority 'cannot lawfully refuse to register Mexican adoptions of two children' 2020 Oct 19
Adoption Authority 'cannot lawfully refuse to register Mexican adoptions of two children' 2020 Oct 19
European Commission to investigate mother and baby homes 2020 Oct 9
The changed face of inter-country adoption post-2010 2020 Jan 8
Attorney General's advice on access to birth details 'incorrect' 2019 Dec 2
Calls for full-scale inquiry into illegal adoptions in Ireland 2019 Nov 29
High Court: Adoption Authority granted order dismissing personal injury proceedings 2019 Sep 18
Damages claim by woman who gave up daughter for adoption 2019 Sep 5
Ireland’s foreign adoption clearance ‘not safe' 2019 Aug 19
Vietnam is top country for foreign adoptions 2019 Jul 21
Vietnam is top country for foreign adoptions 2019 Jul 20
Women who gave up their children for adoption should not be made to suffer twice 2019 Jul 4
Irish widow reunited with daughter given up for adoption nearly 50 years ago after reading horoscope every week 2019 Jun 24
Ireland left horrified by Ana Kriégel’s murder in a derelict farmhouse 2019 Jun 23
Zappone’s haste risks further offending adopted people 2019 Jun 14
Mother’s shock as she discovers woman she raised is not her daughter 2019 Jun 8
Illegal adoption scandal to spark a raft of lawsuits as clamour for answers grows 2019 Jun 8
Minister publishes detailed implementation plan for First 5, the whole-of-Government strategy for babies, young children and the 2019 May 22
Government criticised for 'hypocrisy and dishonesty' over illegal adoption inquiry 2019 May 17
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children raises serious concerns regarding Ireland’s history of illegal adoption practices 2019 Apr 23
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children raises serious concerns regarding Ireland’s history of illegal adoption practices 2019 Apr 23
‘Urgent need’ for probe of forced adoption 2019 Mar 7
Adoption bill’s privacy provisions to be revised 2019 Feb 27
Adoption law changes approved by Cabinet 2019 Feb 27
These Religious Prisons Turned Orphans, Young Girls, and Pregnant Women into Slaves Inside Convent Walls 2019 Feb 22
State to repay clients of failed overseas adoption agency 2019 Jan 9
Adoption and Child Migration in U.S. History 2018 Nov 6
Tusla knew of illegal adoptions in 2016 2018 May 31
Adoption campaigners urge immediate probe 2018 May 31
Finally, Ireland is listening to long-ignored campaigners 2018 May 31
State’s U-turn on illegal adoptions 2018 May 30
35 US-born children adopted by Irish families 2017 Nov 2
Children can now be adopted by their foster carers after 18 months 2017 Jul 14
Serious child protection failings detected in study of Garda 2017 May 29
Accessing adoption files and information on the biological family | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 2017
Staying Connected: Khaled Quzmar 2016 Nov 1
Staying Connected: Khaled Quzmar 2016 Nov 1
Intercountry agreement on adoptions from the Philippines 2016 Aug 18
Former adoption agency owes clients €190,000 2016 Jul 4
European Parliament: Briefing - Adoption of children in the European Union 2016 Jun 1
HSE knew of ‘quasi illegal’ Bessborough adoptions in 2011 2015 Dec 16
Exit from Adoption Sector 2015 Nov 24
COUPLES LEFT IN LIMBO AS ADOPTION AGENCY CLOSES 2015 Nov 1
Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin. 2015 Oct 11
The United States and Vietnam are emerging as the top countries for Irish people adopting abroad 2015 Aug 28
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Fears over ‘trafficking’ of children to the US 2015 Jun 3
Long-term foster kids now eligible for adoption 2015 Apr 25
No appetite to uncover scale of illegal adoption scandal 2015 Apr 13
6,000 adoptions from six mother and baby homes across 23 years 2014 Jul 17
Irish gov confirms 2,000 babies illegally sent to US for adoption 2014 Jul 17
Authority admits thousands of adoptions illegal 2014 Jul 7
Youtube Nigel Cantwell: Regaining Lost Ground (Ireland) 2014 Jun 11
Vacant beds for children in care cost taxpayer €20m 2014 Apr 22
Florida adoption ‘ethics’ warning 2014 Apr 14
Philomena star Judi Dench urged to back inquiry into 'stolen baby' scandal 2013 Nov 16
Couples looking to adopt in Russia may lose children 2013 Oct 20
Agreement with US will 'open door' in adoption process 2013 Sep 4
Agreement would allow adoption from USA 2013 Sep 3
Adoption process in Ireland now ‘full of fear and desperation’ 2013 Jun 11
MOUNT ANVILLE ALUMNI | Michael Fisher's News 2013 Jun 6
Profile - Catherine Day - Village Magazine 2013 May 3
DOS Notice: U.S. – Ireland Operating Arrangement (US outgoing adoptions) 2013 May 3
Under Child Adoption Threat, Ireland Drops Magnitsky List 2013 May 2
Family takes case over refusal to recognise daughter’s adoption 2013 Apr 26
Irish Adoption Authority 'refuses to recognise' Mexican children adopted by Irish parents 2013 Apr 25
Irish couples keen to adopt Indian kids 2013 Mar 21
GP ‘had scores of children illegally adopted': Lack of paper trail has left the adoptees unable to find their mothers 2013 Jan 6
Great business that corrupts authorities; Find Foundation estimates there are 500,000 missing 2012 Dec 16
Mexico Authorities Unravel Child Trafficking Ring 2012 Sep 27
Fresh scandal erupts over Irish children sold to America for adoption 2012 Sep 5
Irish flock to Florida for child adoption opportunities 2012 May 27
Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring 2012 Feb 29
Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring 2012 Feb 29
Mexican adoptions not affected 2012 Jan 30
Adoption law to help children of married parents 2012 Jan 30
Fitzgerald challenged on adoptions 2012 Jan 27
Child welfare ruling may change adoption regime 2011 Dec 28
Irish adoptions from Vietnam to resume 2011 Nov 11
Adoption agency funded despite Vietnam suspension 2011 Oct 10
Authority to travel for talks on adoption agreements 2011 Oct 10
Justice for Magdalenes has welcomed a recommendation by a UN committee for a statutory inquiry into the Magdalene laundries. 2011 Jun 6
First of approved adoption agencies to open 2011 May 30
Adoptions from Vietnam look likely to resume 2011 May 30
No charges two years after Ryan report into child abuse 2011 May 30
Minister asks Adoption Authority to assess situation in Vietnam 2011 Apr 12
Adoption body sent delegation to US 2011 Feb 25
MEPs demand easing of adoption restrictions 2011 Jan 26
Two resign from adoption authority 2010 Dec 31
Romanian adoptees coming of age 2010 Nov 29
Call for inquiry into Magdalene laundries 2010 Nov 10
Pressuring countries on adoption 'can lead to trafficking' 2010 Nov 2
New Adoption Authority appointed 2010 Nov 1
Foreign adoptions - History (Romanian adoptions not recognised) 2010 Nov
Vietnam adoption procedures treat children as 'commodities' 2010 Oct 31
Adoption Act will provide more partner countries 2010 Oct 30
Russians threaten adoption hold-ups over spies 2010 Oct 12
Address by Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Barry Andrews, T.D.at International Adoption Association Conference 2010 Oct 9
Irish couples may adopt from three new countries 2010 Sep 13
Russia calls halt to Irish adoptions 2010 Sep 5
Adoption fees 'misleading' 2010 Aug 23
Scandals at home and abroad have shaken board 2010 Aug 14
Legislation to allow adoption of married parents' children 2010 Jul 7
Vietnam law change may allow adoptions to resume 2010 Jun 27
New adoption agency to bid for clients in coming weeks 2010 Jun 14
Report aims to clear adoption group of impropriety 2010 Jun 9
Written Answers Irish Parliament 2010 Jun 1
Adoption agencies to be struck off for ‘wrongdoing’ 2010 May 21
Delay to adoption process measures 2010 Apr 19
Errant priests’ secret children to sue church 2010 Apr 18
Andrews asks parents to send adoption forms to Russia 2010 Apr 13
Russian Ministry of Education and Science releases new list of homestudy agencies with missing postplacement reports 2010 Apr 10
Russia puts Ireland on its blacklist for adoptions 2010 Apr 10
Minister seeks to reopen Vietnam for Irish adoptions 2010 Apr 4
Forum on new agency/fees 2010 Apr
Dans les coulisses de l'adoption internationale. Visite d'une "usine à bébés" au Vietnam 2010 Feb 25
STOLEN TO ORDER 2010 Jan 16
A new home for baby offered to me for $10,000. 2010 Jan 5
Ethiopian adoption agreement 2009 Dec 9
Nun Criticised in Abuse Report Identified As Nora Wall 2009 Nov 30
Baby broker: Mrs Tang sells newborns to the orphanage next door 2009 Nov 28
Vietnam adoption agreement suspended 2009 Nov 25
Adoption Bill includes Hague protections 2009 Nov 19
Embettled adoption agency defends its role 2009 Oct 25
Ahern warns of 'anti-adoption bias' 2009 Oct 17
Minister examines UN reports pointing to concerns at Vietnamese adoptions 2009 Oct 6
Adoption agency approved in principle 2009 Oct
Senator calls for agency to assist 20 adoptions from Vietnam 2009 Sep 23
Adoptions from Vietnam may not be recognised, says board 2009 Sep 21
FG request interim Vietnam adoption agreement 2009 Sep 19
The Catholic church sold my child 2009 Sep 19
Delegation to seek deal on adoptions from Vietnam 2009 Jun 28
Organisation bids to cut adoption times 2009 Jun 21
Whatever happened to Jane's baby? 2009 Jun 14
Whatever happened to Jane's baby? 2009 Jun 14
Whatever happened to Jane's baby? 2009 Jun 14
Adoptions Brutal Barriers 2009 May 24
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water 2009 May 19
So you want to adopt a baby ... 2008 Jan 2
A damning study of inter-country adoption, Irish style 2007 Jun 19
Couples angry at sex questions in adoption process 2006 Oct 22
A Russian baby? That’ll be €17,000 2005 Dec 18
Mother Cries At News Of Twin's Death Mar 24 2004 2004 Mar 24
Fine Gael leader lobbied for Romanian adoption 2004 Feb 23
Does going west really mean a better life? 2003 Jan 5
Irishwoman to become head of EC environment department 2002 Jan 24
If this little girl goes back to Romania she'll die.. 2001 Aug 27
New Romanian laws facilitate child adoption by Irish families 2000 Sep 16
MEETING IN THE HAGUE WITH TABACARU - EUROPEAN CENTRAL AGENCIES 1999 Oct 11
Weekly Update (Adopter from US - THE SYSTEM EXPLAINED) 1998 Mar 1
Board right to appeal Chinese ruling 1996 Apr 26
St. Patrick's Guild was involved in the secret export of 572 children to the US
Tuam Ireland's secret burial shame By Chris Page
Births not registered and forged adoption signatures at mother and baby homes
The terrifying power of the State over families: Ireland beware