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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 exhaustive in scope and created a documentary that will cause as much of a stir as previous exposés...

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, who was born in Dublin but now lives in Bournemouth, has said any inquiry must not be limited to a...

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 can't just be a review of St Patrick's Guild. They need to review all the illegal adoptees, and all the oth...

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 for a baby’s upkeep until they were adopted. When her birth mother could not afford to pay, the nuns...