Any audit of adoption records needs to examine all forms of illegal adoption and not just illegal birth registrations.

Groups representing natural mothers and adopted people have called for an investigation into the scale of forced and illegal adoptions in Ireland.

TRESSA REEVES, whose son was illegally adopted and registered as the natural child of the adoptive parents, says she has received no assistance from the Adoption Authority more than a year after her case was exposed.

THE chief executive of the Adoption Board left the post at the beginning of July, it has been confirmed.

THE Adoption Board has confirmed it is to carry out an audit of its information and tracing service records to identify any cases involving illegal activity.