IF we did not deprive them of life, we deprived them of their identity. That is the hard truth about our relationship with “illegitimate” children which Stephen Frears’s film Philomena makes us face.

At 31, Paul Graham found out he was adopted. Years later he found out more. Today he’s an angry man, writesDanielle McGrane

Theresa Tinggal’s letter on illegal adoptions (Jan 19), in response to Conall Ó Fátharta’s article in the Irish Examiner, (Jan 14) made sobering reading.

We welcome moves to include Westbank Orphanage, Greystones, in inquiries into institutional abuse in Northern Ireland.

DISGRUNTLED residents in the Croke Park vicinity are planning a protest convoy on the main Dublin-Cork road on the morning of tomorrow week’s All-Ireland SFC final which could cause serious delays for fans travelling to the game.

COUPLES desperate to adopt a child from abroad can wait from 10 months to four years to be assessed, depending on where they live.

AN increasing number of couples are choosing to have an abortion because of financial worries, according to a crisis pregnancy counselling service.

EVEN in the days of almost regal abundance childcare costs represented a significant difficulty for very many young, working families.

Movie stars and sex and violence in the animal kingdom helped make 2005 a boom year for the export of British TV programmes, according to figures out today.

AROUND 100,000 women concerned about a crisis pregnancy in the past three years have used a State-funded mobile phone text service to get help, it was revealed yesterday.

A THREATENED strike by electricity workers has been postponed for 24 hours, in the hope that last ditch talks on Monday will resolve a dispute between ESB management and the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU).

A THREATENED strike next week by 1,000 ESB workers over the retention of apprentice electricians has been described by management as unwarranted.

A CRISIS pregnancy group, which has already received almost 200,000 calls for help on its mobile phone text service, is starting a campaign to reach out to women in their late 30s and early 40s.

The BBC is failing the British film industry, it was claimed today.

UNIONS at ESB yesterday delayed until Friday a decision on whether to go ahead with strike action that could cause paralysing power cuts.

Talks in the new year between ESB management and unions representing staff are likely to focus on employee demands for a 20% stake of the State Body.

A STAGGERING 10,000 mobile text messages were made to a crisis pregnancy information service in one week last month after a TV campaign was launched to promote it.