Organisation: General Registration Office

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Katherine Zappone aware of distress at Tusla refusals

Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone has acknowledged the “distress” experienced by adopted and illegally adopted people who are being refused access to personal information held by State bodies.

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Tusla censored death cert so it ‘can’t be found’

Tusla sent a victim of the St Patrick’s Guild adoption scandal an almost entirely censored copy of her mother’s death certificate so as “to ensure that it can’t be found” in the General Registration Office (GRO).

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Tusla relying on ‘flimsy grounds’ to justify redacting records and birth certs

Adoption campaigners have labelled Tusla ‘worse than nuns’ saying that information that was routinely released is now routinely being withheld, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

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

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Adoption scandal is only going to get bigger

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Commission of inquiry stymied by own remit

‘Definite physical indications’ found at Bessborough of possible shallow graves

A leading archaeologist said there are "definite physical indications" there could be unmarked shallow graves in the grounds of the Bessborough mother and baby home.

Thu, 17 Jul, 2014

Up to one-third of infants died in homes in Dublin, Tipp and Cork in 1933

Up to a third of infants died in mother and baby homes in Dublin, Tipperary and Cork in 1933.

Sun, 08 Jun, 2014

Staffing allocation blamed for delay to grants

Slow allocation of staff, poor communication, and inadequate planning were among the main causes of delay to thousands of student grants, an independent review has reported.

Sat, 18 May, 2013