Thousands of illegally adopted people to have inheritance rights from two sets of parents
Proposed changes to succession law seek to resolve issues around illegal adoptions
What is in the new law on adoption information and how will it work?
Q&A: Campaigners are concerned over proposed ‘information session’ for adoptees
Tracing service for adopted people and parents to be in place this year
Minister unveils ‘landmark’ law giving adoptees right to access information on parents
Judge criticises adoption ‘system failure’ that upset birth mother
Approval granted for ‘last minute’ adoption with ‘considerable degree of reluctance’
Child protection workers ‘don’t shrug it off in the car on the way home’
Paul Harrison’s new memoir reflects on his 40 years doing society’s ‘dirty job’
Tusla chief apologises to those let down by State when seeking birth information
Committee hears warnings over possible lengthy delays for adopted people seeking records
Illegal adoptions: Government seeks advice on next steps
Department to engage with Prof O’Mahony to set ‘broad’ terms of reference for report
Q&A: What did the review of Ireland's adoption records find?
Report ‘will leave many questions unanswered’ but also raises many problems
Up to 20,000 adoption files could relate to irregular birth registrations – report
Phrases or ‘markers’ found in sample files that could indicate ‘suspicious practice’
Micheál Martin describes issue of illegal adoption as ‘shocking’
Adoption-tracing legislation needed, says expert, as case studies to go before Cabinet
Judge criticises 9-year delay in making adoption orders
Couples secured guardianship orders in India in 2011, with view to adopting the children in Ireland
Adoption ‘is for children, not for people who wish to be parents’
CEO of Adoption Authority of Ireland makes no apologies for time-consuming rigour of system
Adoptions facilitated in face of Covid-19 obstacles
Adoption Authority use of videolink allowed children give evidence remotely from home
A fifth of adoptees who applied to see birth certs in 2019 denied access
‘No other parent has the ability to deny their child access to their own birth cert’
Nearly 5,000 children adopted by parents in Ireland since 1991
Largest number have come from Russia, followed by Romania, China and Ethiopia
Closure of Cúnamh Adoption Services ‘a huge disappointment’
Under proposed legislation all such services will be vested solely in State agencies
Catholic adoption agency Cúnamh closes its Dublin doors after 106 years
Legislative changes will vest all future legal rights and responsibilities for information and trace services solely in State agencies
Budget 2020 main points: Free GP care for under 8s, extra gardaí to be recruited
Free dental care for under 6s, Help-to-Buy extended, more SNAs and teachers to be hired
Damages claim by woman who gave up daughter for adoption
Woman (56) says she was coerced into having her baby adopted nearly 40 years ago
Adoption files around the country could be seized under new Bill
Adoption Authority has identified 160 potential locations where files are being held
Shame and guilt hang over people caught up in adoption scandal – solicitor
CLP’s Norman Spicer said State redress scheme could help avoid prolonged litigation
Zappone delays adoption Bill to allow more consultation
Minister halts legislation after meeting advocacy groups, lawyers, social workers
Zappone rejects claim that adoption bill errs on side of secrecy
Adoption Rights Alliance says Minister risks ‘being on the wrong side of history’
Woman ‘given back wrong child’ to begin legal proceedings
Helen Maguire (71) left infant daughter in temporary care at St Patrick’s Guild in Dublin
Woman tells court she was coerced into giving up baby in 1979
Woman suing Adoption Authority of Ireland alleging personal injuries, breach of rights
Identifying people adopted illegally is ‘slow work’, says Tusla
Independent report on illegal birth registration due to Zappone at end of May
Children adopted from foster care ‘should have priority for State services’
Paper from Irish Foster Care Association says carers should get enhanced supports
Authority may not recognise a foreign-based adoption – Supreme Court
Court advises further legal measures to ensure regularisation of the adoption
Illegally adopted man says meeting birth mother ‘a blessing’
Patrick Farrell is suing State and Catholic adoption agency for alleged deceit, conspiracy
‘How can I move home when Irish law does not recognise I am my son’s father?’
Parents who have had children by surrogacy are put off returning because of a legal limbo
Carlow man tells court of illegal adoption ‘bombshell’
Paddy Farrell says he found out after 50 years that he was ‘André Donnelly’
Adoption Authority examining 140 more births suspected of being illegally registered
Dáil hears of ’home boys’ sent from institutions to work for farmers
Campaigners say adoption investigation terms of reference ‘shameful’
‘Lack of communication and consultation with survivors is not helping but causing hurt and harm’
Incorrect registration of births ‘another failure by the State’
Those affected, between 1946 and 1969, had adoptive parents wrongly registered as birth parents
Adopted children must have right to contact with their birth families
Conference told it is time to look at supports as well as ‘clean break’ adoptions
Supreme Court to hear appeal over foreign adoption recognition
Case immediately affects status of two children adopted in another country
Hundreds in foster care to become eligible for adoption
Bill will give High Court revised criteria to approve adoption without parental consent
More than 50,000 adoptees to get right to birth certificates
Minister for Children Katherine Zappone secures approval for Adoption Bill
Philippines formally added as country for Irish adoptions
Adoption Authority of Ireland signs arrangements under Hague Convention
Adopted boy passed off as couple’s ‘natural child’, mother says
Woman and son allege fradulent documents created and are suing three parties
Children ‘being failed’ by lack of cyber bullying controls
State rapporteur on child protection says issue ‘one of the biggest challenges facing schools’
Adoption can proceed without consent of father, court rules
Woman (22) persistently refused to identify father of her three-year-old daughter
Right to access birth cert for up to 50,000 adopted
Cabinet to discuss draft legislation which will apply to all past and future adoptions
Referendum body to clarify position on surrogacy and adoption
Government has plans to deal with area of surrogacy, commission chairman says
Family legislation most important change in a generation, head of AAI says
Same-sex couples can be assessed to adopt
A tale of two brothers separated for 44 years
When Frank Snellings visited Ireland to search for his birth mother, he discovered a sibling he never knew he had
Adoption body sees ‘glimmers of hope’ for prospective parents
Although progress has been made implementing the Hague Convention, international association says there is much yet to be done
Challenges of adoption past, present and future
Records and assessments are on the agenda for the adoption authority’s new chief executive, Patricia Carey
Age limit for adoptive parents urged by authority
Gap of 42 years should be maximum as more children available have special needs
Change sought to anomaly in adoption law
Lone-parent organisations and lawyers join call for changes to adoption legislation
Adoption body need not inform natural fathers, court rules
Judge drops legal requirement for Adoption Authority to find fathers
Bewildered and frustrated: the couple faced with unexpected adoption bills
A Donegal couple are dismayed by the bill they’ve received for a process they have withdrawn from
Most children placed for intercountry adoption now have special needs, conference told
Minister says applicants must be ‘realistic’ when looking at adopting from abroad
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