Letters to the Editor: Adopted from a mother and baby home, my father rediscovered his family

A reader says his father was rejected from the reparations scheme — but he was blessed by his reunification with his birth family

'Nine days after my father’s birth in Ireland, the Catholic Church confiscated him and placed him into a mother and baby home,' writes James Finney-Conlon

When an opportunity for reparations comes, what does it feel like to be denied? I gave my father hope that his appeal would be successful, and I feel responsible for letting him down.

Nine days after my father’s birth in Ireland, the Catholic Church confiscated him and placed him into a mother and baby home.