'I would like Dad to have some peace': Helen O'Grady's search for her father's birth mother

John O'Grady spent a lifetime searching for his mother Bridget. Since his death earlier this year, his daughter Helen has taken up the search in the hope it will let him rest in peace

The infant Helen O’Grady with her dad, John O’Grady. As a baby, John was left on the doorstep of a mother and baby home. Later in life he moved to Britain and ultimately served as a soldier there.

The daughter of a man who died without finding out what happened to his birth mother plans to continue his lifelong search for answers.

For most of his childhood, John O’Grady was told by the nuns that his mother Bridget left him on a doorstep of St Patrick’s mother and baby home in Dublin in 1945 because she was unable to care for him.