It’s difficult to conceive, but we are creating new generation of orphans

I don’t have enough compassion for infertile couples... I will never quite know how it feels, writes Victoria White

IT’S little and late, but it’s great news that the Cabinet has discussed legislation to give adopted people the right to their birth certificates. This is a basic human right.

It is an outrage that 50,000 adopted people in Ireland have been denied the piece of paper that states the bare facts of their birth: who Mam was, who Dad was, where and when they were born. They couldn’t be asking for less — access to that bit of paper that the rest of us take for granted.