Anne Ferris TD, who was adopted as a child, meets sister for the first time

A TD has described the first time she set eyes on her sister after the two were separated as infants and adopted from different mother-and-baby homes into separate families.

In an emotional speech, Wicklow TD Anne Ferris described having a pot of tea for the first time with her sister only two weeks ago, after they had been separated their whole lives.

The Labour politician told the Dáil that she and her sister were lucky as they were both adopted into loving families but that not everyone born in a mother-and-baby home was that lucky.