Person: Tressa

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Slane shopkeeper still tots up with pen and paper

Visitors such as Sinead O’Connor and Tommy Makem once enjoyed tea at one of the country’s oldest galvanised shops, which is hoping to ensure its future with nostalgia.

comment-analysis

Long fight over illegal adoption finally ends

TRESSA Reeves never asked for anything for herself. All she ever wanted was for her son to be told the truth of who he was, writes Conall Ó Fátharta. It was a selfless act of a woman and a mother. A woman and mother ignored year after year by every State agency she asked to help her.

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Tressa Reeves’s decade-long battle to get the State to tell her son the truth about his birth

Despite protesting otherwise, the State knew about the practice of illegal adoption for years, with Tressa Reeves gathering evidence of her son’s illegal registration in 1997 and the authorities informed in 2001, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

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‘I battled for years for my son’s birth cert’

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Theatre review: King of the Castle, Gaiety (Dublin Theatre Festival)

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Children’s books

Woman has two sets of identical twins in one day

A Texas mother had a one-in-70-million kind of Valentine’s Day this year when she gave birth to two sets of identical twin boys.

Wed, 20 Feb, 2013

Man faces trial in Sydney over Irish backpacker’s death

A MAN accused of punching an Irish backpacker outside a takeaway shop in Sydney, Australia, has been ordered to face trial for manslaughter.

Tue, 24 May, 2011

Surge in calls to adoption helplines

ADOPTION support groups have received a surge of calls to their helplines following the Irish Examiner’s special investigation into the issue of illegal adoption.

Wed, 21 Apr, 2010

Tortured journey

TRESSA REEVES stares at the framed piece of paper on the wall.

Mon, 19 Apr, 2010

In search of a long-lost boy

TRESSA REEVES was born Teresa Mary Donnelly in England to an Irish father and an English mother.

Mon, 19 Apr, 2010

Man presents himself to police after Sydney death

The prime suspect in the killing of an Irish man in Australia handed himself over to police hours after an emotional plea from the dead man’s mother, it emerged today.

Fri, 30 Oct, 2009

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