Call for government to apologise for obstructing access to mother and baby home records

Protesters hang baby shoes outside Áras an Uachtaráin to highlight their opposition to the sealing of records on mother and baby homes. Campaign groups say the government needs to apologise for the hurt caused. 

An adoptee identity rights organisation has called on the Government to commit to a national apology for the “decades-long practice of concealing and obstructing access to records pertaining to mother and baby homes”.

Aitheantas says the apology from the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister Roderic O’Gorman should form part of an overall apology for the practices of forced and coercive adoption.