Organisation: Irish Adoption Board

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Report aims to clear adoption group of impropriety

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.

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20 Irish couples still waiting to adopt Vietnamese children

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Russia plans to outlaw adoption middlemen

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AdoptionIreland calls for resignation of Adoption Board member

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One small step a giant leap for adopted Minh

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Irish agency opening in Vietnam to prevent illegal adoption

Couple ordered to pay maintenance for abandoned child Tristan

A four-year-old Indonesian child abandoned by his adoptive parents is to receive monthly maintenance payments from them and compensation of €45,000, it emerged today.

Thu, 23 Feb, 2006

Exploiting poverty to acquire a child is wrong

IN response to Maria O’Keeffe’s letter (Irish Examiner, April 22) attacking your recent coverage of foreign adoption, I would suggest that rather than being an unbalanced and jaundiced view, we are at last seeing the other side of the story.

Tue, 26 Apr, 2005

Irish adoptive parents are proud of their children’s heritage and culture - poor or not

WE were shocked to read about the unfortunate circumstances of young Tristan Dowse in the article by Ann McElhinney (Irish Examiner, April 15).

Mon, 25 Apr, 2005

Ambassador flies out to sort Tristan case

THE Irish ambassador to Indonesia is set to travel to Jakarta to meet officials investigating the adoption of Tristan Dowse by an Irish man and his wife.

Tue, 19 Apr, 2005

AdoptionIreland concern for toddler Tristan

AdoptionIreland has said it is concerned efforts to have Tristan Dowse readopted, however well meaning, are not in his best interests.

Mon, 18 Apr, 2005

Government took year to act over Tristan

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.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2005

Boy’s Irish adoption ‘may not be legal’

THE adoption of a three-year-old Indonesian boy by an Irish man and his wife, who later left him in a Jakarta orphanage, may not have been legal, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has conceded.

Sat, 16 Apr, 2005

Boy adopted by Irishman left in legal limbo

AT the Immanuel orphanage where he was left with some clothes and a small box of toys, three-year-old Tristan Dowes is known as “the Irish boy”.

Thu, 14 Apr, 2005

Adoption inquiries up sharply since south Asian tsunami

The Irish Adoption Board has reported a sharp increase in inquiries from people seeking to adopt children orphaned by the south Asian tsunami disaster.

Fri, 07 Jan, 2005

FG seeks action on adoption

Fine Gael spokesman on Community Affairs, Fergus O'Dowd TD today called for closer ties with foreign adoption agencies following a suspension of facilitation arrangements by Belarussian authorities.

Mon, 01 Jul, 2002

Hanafin in Philippines for adoption agreement visit

The Minister for Children, Mary Hanafin, is to meet with officials in the Philippines today to discuss the signing of a bilateral agreement on inter-country adoption between the Irish Adoption Board and the Philippines authorities.

Mon, 27 Aug, 2001

Internet adoption case could 'never happen here'

The Internet adoption scandal over the sale of American twin babies could never happen in Ireland, according to the Government.

Wed, 17 Jan, 2001