Find a friend: One care home boy's tireless search for a fellow resident

The recently passed Birth Information and Tracing Act will allow adopted people and their biological parents guaranteed access to information and records about their birth and early life but there is currently no facility for peer tracing.

Nazareth House: A 'pauper's refuge' for children and older people in Sligo town in the 1960s and 1970s.

'My name is Sean…’ began the stranger’s email which popped into my inbox last April. It ended with ‘Could you help me find her?’ I hit reply. 

Sean* was a ‘home boy’, reared by the nuns and staff of Nazareth House care home — often dubbed a pauper’s refuge — for children and older people in Sligo town in the 1960s and 1970s.