Birth information: ‘Tusla knows I met my birth mother — and I still have not got my files’

Adoptees speak of frustration and delays getting their own information under the Birth Information and Tracing Act

One adoptee, now a mum herself, says: 'When my daughter was born in 1998 she had a simple medical issue. But I was unaware I had the same one and I was hospitalised and treated for that.' Stock picture

WHEN Martina Power held her firstborn child in her arms, the bond was stronger than anything she had ever felt before.

Here was a tiny little person who had her blood coursing through her veins and who could perhaps one day look and sound just like her.