Maggie Lyng: My story has not been told and there are 60,000 more

Maggie Lyng is unsure whether she and others like her will be included in the redress scheme, enhanced medical cards and other supports announced by the Government following the publication of the mother and baby home report in January.

The story of a woman who was adopted through St Patrick's Guild Adoption Society, one of many institutions which the Mother and Baby Homes Commission did not investigate, writes Elaine Loughlin

"One of my names is Maggie Lyng, but I was originally named something else and known as somebody else. Before I was placed for adoption at one month old, I had an alternate identity put on me, as if my own name and family were replaceable and easily substituted.