Adoption Authority 'cannot lawfully refuse to register Mexican adoptions of two children' 

10 years after both children were born, adopted and brought to Ireland they 'remain in a form of legal limbo'

Both children were born after November 1, 2010, each was adopted in Mexico by an Irish couple and both are described as 'happy and thriving' here.

The Adoption Authority cannot lawfully refuse to register the separate Mexican adoptions of two young children whose lives here involve "a legal limbo", the Supreme Court has ruled.

The adoptions of 15 other Mexican-born children in a similar position to the two children, including a sibling of one of them, have been registered by the Authority in the register of intercountry adoptions, Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell noted.