Karen hopes site will end search for mother

KAREN GRATTAN has spent 17 years searching for her natural mother. Her search has been hampered by a paper trail containing false information and a history of non-cooperation from State and private agencies.

Now the 35-year-old is hoping a new contact register for adopted persons and natural parents will lead to a reunion with her mother.

A publicity drive for the National Adoption Contact Preference Register is underway and Karen is hoping a woman aged no more than her early 60s who gave birth to a child in a Dublin hospital in 1969 will register her details. Karen was adopted through the St Patrick’s Guild agency.