# Adoption
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Last month
February 2024
birth information and tracing
Over 2,800 applications to Tusla's tracing service still awaiting social worker allocation
7.5k
Feb 11th 2024, 6:30 AM
Last year
2023
Delays
'A punch in the gut': Tusla apologises as adopted people wait up to a year for personal records
7.8k
Oct 28th 2023, 12:10 AM
Stolen
'Witnesses telling their stories, while they're still alive, is very powerful'
20.3k
Feb 26th 2023, 8:00 AM
redress scheme
'Mothers had their children ripped out of their arms': 24,000 people excluded from redress
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21.6k
Updated
Feb 1st 2023, 9:00 PM
Institutions
'Four lives were ripped apart': Woman plans legal action over mother's exclusion from redress
20.4k
Jan 15th 2023, 12:05 AM
Adoption Authority of Ireland
Officials warned that lack of social workers would delay giving adopted people their records
7.4k
Jan 4th 2023, 12:05 AM
All time
Podcast
Redacted Lives: Catch up on our documentary series about Mother and Baby Homes
4.9k
Dec 27th 2022, 10:00 PM
Podcast
Redacted Lives: Final episode explores redress and plans to excavate Tuam mother and baby home site
11.9k
Updated
Dec 15th 2022, 11:00 AM
redacted lives
'I don't want to die not knowing': Adopted people share their search to find their identity
17.9k
Dec 11th 2022, 12:05 AM
AAI
Adopted people 'disgusted' and 'distraught' they might not get their records until autumn 2023
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26.2k
Updated
Dec 9th 2022, 7:20 PM
high walls
Redacted Lives: The second episode of our new documentary series is out now
25.2k
Nov 17th 2022, 6:00 AM
Adoption
Tusla and AAI given new tracing powers after 'technical issue' arises with Birth Information Act
7.4k
Nov 16th 2022, 11:15 AM
tracey 1735
Redacted Lives: The first episode of our new documentary series is out now
47.0k
Updated
Nov 13th 2022, 7:00 AM
redacted lives
'Pregnant from Ireland' - A term many people didn't know until recently, even the women themselves
47.2k
Nov 13th 2022, 12:05 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'I still don’t know why my name is Claire McGettrick and not Caitríona Palmer'
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19.8k
Nov 4th 2022, 7:00 AM
redacted lives
Redacted Lives: New podcast will explore how families were torn apart by Mother and Baby Homes
12.9k
Nov 1st 2022, 6:00 AM
bessborough
'You're a Quinn, you're one of us': Woman adopted to US in 1960 finally meets her Irish family
61.6k
Oct 31st 2022, 12:05 AM
tusla
Waiting time for adopted people to get birth information triples to 90 days
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9.9k
Oct 28th 2022, 8:56 PM
Voices
Holly Cairns: Calculating redress based on length of time in an institution is just wrong
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8.0k
Oct 19th 2022, 7:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: Last week, birth information became accessible - but the law doesn't go far enough
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9.5k
Updated
Oct 11th 2022, 10:20 AM
information and tracing act
More than 800 applications made for access to birth information since system opened yesterday
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7.0k
Oct 4th 2022, 5:39 PM
information and tracing act
'A historic moment': Adopted people can access information about their birth from today
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17.1k
Updated
Oct 3rd 2022, 10:20 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'Travelling to Limerick in search of college digs as a care-leaver felt so lonely'
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21.8k
Sep 18th 2022, 7:45 AM
Adoption
Information and tracing services under Birth Act to begin from next month
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7.0k
Sep 12th 2022, 1:02 PM
access to records
Almost 900 people sign up to adoption tracing system - 32 have 'no contact' preference
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13.5k
Aug 4th 2022, 10:17 AM
birth information bill
Adopted people will finally get access to records after President signs Bill into law
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10.7k
Jun 30th 2022, 2:34 PM
St Patrick's Guild
'It's an insult': €3,000 payment for people who were illegally adopted criticised
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37.1k
Updated
Mar 14th 2022, 3:45 PM
boarded out
'This will haunt the Government': Call for extension of MBH redress, or for new Commission to be held
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13.0k
Mar 6th 2022, 7:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: Our rights as adopted people will not be enshrined in law, they'll be in grave danger
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8.7k
Jan 21st 2022, 7:00 AM
Voices
Roderic O'Gorman: We hope today's legislation will right decades of wrongs against adopted people
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7.9k
Updated
Jan 12th 2022, 2:00 PM
New Law
Adopted people will no longer have to attend mandatory information session when seeking records
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14.0k
Jan 12th 2022, 6:30 AM
Vaccine Trials
Mother told daughter would 'get a needle in her arm every day' until she signed adoption papers
89.3k
Jan 12th 2022, 12:05 AM
burials bill
Tuam site may finally be excavated in 2022 - five years after 'significant' human remains found
12.0k
Dec 24th 2021, 12:05 AM
Netherlands
'My mother didn't want people to know I existed': One woman's mission to find her identity
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61.8k
Dec 11th 2021, 8:00 PM
response to redress
Government will not oppose motion for review of redress scheme for Mother and Baby Home survivors
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14.1k
Updated
Nov 23rd 2021, 8:40 PM
mother-and-baby homes
Over 30 experts ask O'Gorman to change redress scheme so it considers 'impact of early trauma'
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12.9k
Nov 22nd 2021, 4:23 PM
mother-and-baby homes
'They're waiting for more of us to die': Women whose children were taken react to redress scheme
21.5k
Nov 21st 2021, 12:05 AM
mother and baby homes
'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court
53.5k
Updated
Nov 17th 2021, 5:10 PM
Commission
Mother and Baby Homes: 34,000 survivors eligible for compensation in €800m redress scheme
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Nov 16th 2021, 2:13 PM