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This year
2024
birth information and tracing
Over 2,800 applications to Tusla's tracing service still awaiting social worker allocation
11 Feb
7.8k
All time
AAI
Adopted people 'disgusted' and 'distraught' they might not get their records until autumn 2023
Updated 9 Dec 2022
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New Law
Adopted people to get access to their birth certs and other records under new legislation
Updated 12 Jan 2022
30.3k
38
Voices
Roderic O'Gorman: We hope today's legislation will right decades of wrongs against adopted people
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Updated 12 Jan 2022
7.9k
7
New Law
Adopted people will no longer have to attend mandatory information session when seeking records
12 Jan 2022
14.0k
13
Delay
'Desperate' parents paying double to get birth certs via private companies amid registration delays
27 Nov 2021
68.2k
38
Adoption
O'Gorman says term 'birth mother' is 'reductive and hurtful' ahead of legislation debate
28 Sep 2021
27.1k
34
information and tracing
Denying adopted people access to their birth certs 'could re-traumatise them'
13 Jul 2021
6.6k
9
Clergy
Government 'failing to support' priests' children as they search for their fathers
23 May 2021
35.0k
Adoptions
'Groundbreaking' legislation will give adopted people access to birth certs and early life information
Updated 11 May 2021
46.7k
33
long lost sisters
Geraldine was born in St Patrick's, her sister Pauline was born in Bessborough - 50 years later they found each other
2 May 2021
51.9k
Redress
'Pay us and acknowledge what happened': Mother and baby home survivors want compensation and a remembrance day
4 Apr 2021
28.6k
41
birth certs
O'Gorman says adopted people will get birth certs and other information under new legislation
Updated 10 Mar 2021
19.0k
15
birth registration
Report into illegal adoptions estimates there are thousands of 'suspicious' files, but advises against inquiry
9 Mar 2021
10.3k
12
Multiple Sclerosis
'Lives could be saved': Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
6 Feb 2021
26.0k
4
Commission
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden and illegally adopted'
17 Jan 2021
34.7k
Adoption
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'
16 Jan 2021
122k
Parenting
Same-sex couples will be able to use ‘parent’ on birth certificates under new law
11 Jan 2019
18.8k
105
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Adoption group urges support for new law to stop adoptees 'feeling like pariahs'
19 Nov 2014
7.4k
6
ADOPTION RIGHTS
'My son died believing I had rejected him': Philomena Lee calls on Senators to support Adoption Bill
17 Nov 2014
10.2k
13
birth certs
This GAA club is taking no World Cup-related excuses for missing training
18 Jun 2014
14.1k
4
Averil Power
State 'robbing adoptees of their identities' by denying access to birth certs
15 Jun 2014
11.1k
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