Adoption records ‘must be put in public domain’

RECORDS held by adoption agency Pact must be put in the public domain so people can access their past, according to a man who spent many years in a Government-funded home but for whom the state has no records.

Adoption records ‘must be put in public  domain’

Campaigner Derek Leinster was born and lived in a Government-funded Protestant home for illegitimate children.

Mr Leinster maintains that because people from Bethany Home, an institution for unmarried protestant mothers, were non-catholic they were not considered important enough to be recorded under the law of the land.

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