Adoption board members attend only fraction of meetings in 5-year period

SOME Adoption Board members attended just a fraction of board meetings between 2005 and 2009, a period in which the organisation was embroiled in high-profile scandals.

Figures released to the Irish Examiner show two appointees to the previous board with links to Fianna Fáil, Fachtna Whittle and Tony Lynam-Loane, attended the least number of board meetings in the five-year period.

Two other members of the eight member board, Dr Valerie O’Brien and Orlaith Traynor, attended fewer than 65% of the meetings held in this time.