Michael Clifford: Politicians have no excuse not to do the right thing

One primal need of adopted people is access to their birth certificates. The very least they deserve is the application of real political will to expedite that process without further delay

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and children's minister  Roderic O'Gorman at a briefing on the publication of the report at Government Buildings. Picture: Julien Behal

In November 1969, Hibernia magazine published an interview with “an unmarried mother” who was 23. 

Clare arrived in Dublin from her hometown when she was 20, got into a relationship with an older man, and became pregnant.