Agency urges Government to aid Tristan

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.

AdoptionIreland, a representative body for adopted people in Ireland, has accused the Government of failing the four-year-old boy and is calling for a financial package to be made available to help keep Tristan and his birth mother Suranyi together. The pair were reunited last month.

Tristan remains in legal limbo ahead of court hearings on his future status. He is still registered as a foreign adopted child and retains his Irish passport.