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I have a long personal history with St Patrick’s Guild, the adoption agency at the centre of Wednesday night’s RTÉ Investigates programme about traded babies and robbed identities. One contributor spoke of the fortress mentality exhibited when he sought information about his personal history. I can testify myself that his choice of the word fortress was apt and accurate. The programme devoted a whole 90 minutes to illegal adoptions, but never lost its hold. Aoife Hegarty’s research was ...

Bournemouth woman calls for investigation into illegal adoption Undated handout photo issued by Theresa Hiney Tinggall showing Theresa Hiney Tinggall, who has called for a full nationwide investigation into the practice of illegal adoption following the airing of an RTE documentary on Wednesday night. Issue date: A woman who discovered she was illegally adopted and had her birth certificate falsified has called for a full, nationwide investigation into the scandal. Theresa Hiney Tinggal, 66...

The government needs to establish an investigation into Ireland’s “criminal” adoption system which resulted in thousands of illegal adoptions, the Sinn Féin leader has said.Mary Lou McDonald said

A woman who discovered she was illegally adopted and had her birth certificate falsified has called for a full, nationwide investigation into the scandal. Theresa Hiney Tinggal has said any inquiry must not be limited to adoptees from St Patrick’s Guild, where at least 126 births between 1946 and 1969 were incorrectly registered. Ms Tinggal was stunned to discover the truth about her past in 2002 at age of 48, and has criticised the Government for ignoring the issue for so long. There cant ju...

The programme, RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Illegal Adoptions, also details how the Sisters of Charity, who ran the infamous St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Society, pursued a birth mother for maintenance payments for her daughter, long after she had actually been adopted. Among documents obtained by one woman who was illegally adopted, Dubliner Susan Kiernan, was a demand by for £85 from her birth mother. The fee, roughly equivalent to €3,200 today, was charged by the Sisters of Charity fo...

RTE doc finds religious orders ruthlessly pursued and harassed mums for maintenance fees months after children adopted Updated: 3 Mar 2021, 7:23 RELIGIOUS orders ruthlessly pursued and harassed mothers for maintenance fees months after their children were adopted, an RTE documentary has found. An explosive expose will tell how the Sisters of Charity called a mum at her workplace threatening if she didn’t pay up her child would be returned - despite already being adopted. 2 2 Dubliner Susan Ki...

Mary Dolan was in her mid-30s when she first learned that she had been adopted. She is still searching for answers, reports Aoife Hegarty.

There have been calls for the Government to establish an investigation into Ireland’s “criminal” adoption system, which saw thousands of babies illegally adopted.

Figure far higher than tally previously drawn up in 1997 by Department of Foreign Affairs

A new independent investigation into Northern Irelands mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries announced last week is expected to look at the trafficking of children across the border. A research report found at least 10,640 women and girls entered mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1990, with 11pc of them being moved to the Republic. The revelation has prompted questions over the legality of the cross-border adoptions of children. The research confirms there is ev...