‘Old Ireland’ still exists for adoptees

If the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 is passed as it stands, it will reinforce the existing system, and it will penalise and further stigmatise a group of people who have already been deeply hurt by Ireland’s closed, secret, forced adoption system, write Claire McGettrick and Susan Lohan.

THE reporting this week, by Tusla, of 126 illegal adoptions conducted by St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Society (SPG) comes as no surprise to Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA).