Mother and Baby home survivor Clodagh Finn: Stop muting our voices 

I am 53 years old and I saw my birth cert for the first time this week, writes Clodagh Finn

Clodagh Finn: "We owe it to them to ensure that the lived experiences of Irish citizens inform government policy and that they shape the state’s institutions and structures, rather than the other way around." Picture: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie

There was a certain irony, for me at least, in the timing. 

Just as Prof Mary Daly, a Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation member was telling an online conference, that the testimony of 550 survivors had been dismissed because it did not “meet robust legal standards of evidence”, a copy of my birth cert plopped into my inbox.