Birth information bill for adopted people ‘at odds’ with EU law, committee hears

Lawyers tell TDs and Senators that Birth Information Bill ‘not legal’ under GDPR

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

Adoption files around the country could be seized under new Bill

Adoption Authority has identified 160 potential locations where files are being held

Adoption reforms: Why a referendum may be on the cards

Katherine Zappone is working on amendments to enable disclosure of information for adoptees

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Identifying people adopted illegally is ‘slow work’, says Tusla

Independent report on illegal birth registration due to Zappone at end of May

Campaigners say adoption investigation terms of reference ‘shameful’

‘Lack of communication and consultation with survivors is not helping but causing hurt and harm’

Law forcing mothers to adopt their own children is quashed

Women who want partner to become stepfather no longer have to give up legal rights

Adoption via fostering must be ‘motivated by child’s best interests’

Adoption Amendment Bill: Traumatised young ‘must not see services cut’ if adopted

Bill on adoption gives effect to children’s referendum proposal

Newly published legislation provides eligibility for couples in civil partnership to adopt

Illegal adoptions pose complications in searches for birth parents

Paula Douglas’s birth certificate was forged and she cannot trace her birth mother

Analysis: Surrogacy and adoption rights will not be affected by referendum result

Minister accuses No side of trying toconfuse voters with irrelevant issues

The baby black market

Mother-and-baby homes were only part of the system for dealing with unmarried mothers in the 1950s. Many children were also sold into a thriving network that stretched from Ireland to the US

Couple refused access to Mexico adoption papers