'The survivors, as a community, are just not believed', says Rosemary Adaser 

'The survivors, as a community, are just not believed', says Rosemary Adaser 

Rosemary Adaser, founder of the Mixed-Race Irish Association.

Eight days after the report into mother and baby homes was published, survivor and activist Rosemary Adaser is still reeling from the shock of its shortcomings.

Born to a Ghanaian doctor father and an Irish mother who worked as a telephonist in the same hospital, she was put into St Clare's Convent in Stamullen, Co Meath, before being moved, aged 18 months, to St Patrick’s mother and baby home in Dublin in 1958.

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