ADOPTION agency Helping Hands, currently under investigation by the Adoption Board in relation to fees it charges people to adopt from Vietnam, has issued a report clearing the agency of any impropriety.

COUPLES eager to adopt foreign children are facing delays of five years, because of a bottleneck in waiting lists.

AdoptionIreland has today called for the resignation Sharon O'Driscoll from the Adoption Board, claiming that a conflict of interest exists.

Adoption Ireland has condemned a High Court decision not to release information to an adopted woman about her biological mother.

Calls have been flooding in to the adoption board from Irish couples anxious to rescue a three-year-old Irish citizen who is in an Indonesian orphanage.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs was aware that three-year-old Tristan Dowse was left in an orphanage by his family a year ago, however the investigation into the legality of the adoption only began last week.

ADOPTED people have criticised the decision of Children’s Minister Brian Lenihan not to appoint an adopted person to the incoming Adoption Board.