The Labyrinth: Mother and baby home survivor creates 'red tape maze' of finding her identity

Susan is one of around 60,000 adult adoptees in Ireland who up until last year, did not have the automatic right to her birth certificate.

Susan Farrelly, a mother and baby home survivor of Bessborough.

An artist who was born in Bessborough mother and baby home has designed a labyrinth sculpture which she said represents the “red tape maze” she was forced to endure while uncovering her identity.

Susan Farrelly 49, from Co. Louth was born in the institution on October 15, 1974, and was adopted two weeks later.