# Adoption
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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
Last year
2023
Delays
'A punch in the gut': Tusla apologises as adopted people wait up to a year for personal records
28 Oct 2023
7.9k
Stolen
'Witnesses telling their stories, while they're still alive, is very powerful'
26 Feb 2023
20.4k
redress scheme
'Mothers had their children ripped out of their arms': 24,000 people excluded from redress
Updated
1 Feb 2023
21.7k
17
Institutions
'Four lives were ripped apart': Woman plans legal action over mother's exclusion from redress
15 Jan 2023
20.4k
Adoption Authority of Ireland
Officials warned that lack of social workers would delay giving adopted people their records
4 Jan 2023
7.4k
All time
Podcast
Redacted Lives: Catch up on our documentary series about Mother and Baby Homes
27 Dec 2022
5.0k
Podcast
Redacted Lives: Final episode explores redress and plans to excavate Tuam mother and baby home site
Updated
15 Dec 2022
11.9k
redacted lives
'I don't want to die not knowing': Adopted people share their search to find their identity
11 Dec 2022
17.9k
5
AAI
Adopted people 'disgusted' and 'distraught' they might not get their records until autumn 2023
Updated
9 Dec 2022
26.3k
7
high walls
Redacted Lives: The second episode of our new documentary series is out now
17 Nov 2022
25.2k
Adoption
Tusla and AAI given new tracing powers after 'technical issue' arises with Birth Information Act
16 Nov 2022
7.4k
tracey 1735
Redacted Lives: The first episode of our new documentary series is out now
Updated
13 Nov 2022
47.0k
redacted lives
'Pregnant from Ireland' - A term many people didn't know until recently, even the women themselves
13 Nov 2022
47.2k
Voices
Opinion: 'I still don’t know why my name is Claire McGettrick and not Caitríona Palmer'
Claire McGettrick
4 Nov 2022
19.8k
3
redacted lives
Redacted Lives: New podcast will explore how families were torn apart by Mother and Baby Homes
1 Nov 2022
12.9k
bessborough
'You're a Quinn, you're one of us': Woman adopted to US in 1960 finally meets her Irish family
31 Oct 2022
61.6k
tusla
Waiting time for adopted people to get birth information triples to 90 days
28 Oct 2022
9.9k
22
Voices
Holly Cairns: Calculating redress based on length of time in an institution is just wrong
Holly Cairns
19 Oct 2022
8.0k
10
Voices
Opinion: Last week, birth information became accessible - but the law doesn't go far enough
Claire McGettrick
Updated
11 Oct 2022
9.5k
4
information and tracing act
More than 800 applications made for access to birth information since system opened yesterday
4 Oct 2022
7.0k
5
information and tracing act
'A historic moment': Adopted people can access information about their birth from today
Updated
3 Oct 2022
17.1k
11
Voices
Opinion: 'Travelling to Limerick in search of college digs as a care-leaver felt so lonely'
Rory Brown
18 Sep 2022
21.8k
19
Adoption
Information and tracing services under Birth Act to begin from next month
12 Sep 2022
7.0k
3
access to records
Almost 900 people sign up to adoption tracing system - 32 have 'no contact' preference
4 Aug 2022
13.5k
2
birth information bill
Adopted people will finally get access to records after President signs Bill into law
30 Jun 2022
10.7k
7
St Patrick's Guild
'It's an insult': €3,000 payment for people who were illegally adopted criticised
Updated
14 Mar 2022
37.1k
29
boarded out
'This will haunt the Government': Call for extension of MBH redress, or for new Commission to be held
6 Mar 2022
13.0k
2
Voices
Opinion: Our rights as adopted people will not be enshrined in law, they'll be in grave danger
Claire McGettrick
21 Jan 2022
8.7k
5
Voices
Roderic O'Gorman: We hope today's legislation will right decades of wrongs against adopted people
Roderic O'Gorman
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
Vaccine Trials
Mother told daughter would 'get a needle in her arm every day' until she signed adoption papers
12 Jan 2022
89.4k
burials bill
Tuam site may finally be excavated in 2022 - five years after 'significant' human remains found
24 Dec 2021
12.0k
Netherlands
'My mother didn't want people to know I existed': One woman's mission to find her identity
11 Dec 2021
61.9k
20
response to redress
Government will not oppose motion for review of redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors
Updated
23 Nov 2021
14.1k
18
mother-and-baby homes
Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma'
22 Nov 2021
12.9k
5
mother-and-baby homes
'They're waiting for more of us to die': Women whose children were taken react to redress scheme
21 Nov 2021
21.5k
mother and baby homes
'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court
Updated
17 Nov 2021
53.5k
Commission
Mother and Baby Homes: 34,000 survivors eligible for compensation in €800m redress scheme
16 Nov 2021
32.0k
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