THE Irish Adoption Board is to set up a mediation agency in Vietnam to ensure that couples here do not get unwittingly involved in Tristan Dowse-style illegal adoptions in the Far East.

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.

THE GOVERNMENT must put a financial package together to ensure that Tristan Dowse, the child adopted and then abandoned by his Irish father in Indonesia, can stay with his birth mother.