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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 Kiernan was one of the 126 illegally adopted The damning documentary will also lay bare the role Prof ...

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 Ireland's 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 evidence that a number of children were moved from mother and baby homes in the North to others in th...