Adoption pain: ‘Beef is 100% traceable but I’m not’

AN Irish woman has opened up about the heartbreak of being coldly turned away by her birth mother and her battle to get her hands on her adoption file.

Forty-five years after her adoption, Grainne Mason says there is more traceability to beef in the supermarket than finding the origin of thousands of babies given up for adoption in Ireland in the second half of the 20th century.

A new TV3 documentary is set to detail the joy and sorrow behind some of the 50,000 adoptions which have taken place in Ireland since it became legal in 1952.