); Lives could be saved : Woman with MS says adopted people should have access to medical history
“So many lives could be made better, saved, elongated, if doctors knew what they were testing for.” By Órla Ryan Saturday 6 Feb 2021, 10:30 AM Feb 6th 2021, 10:30 AM 24,939 Views 4 Comments
Sinéad Buckley
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A WOMAN BORN in a mother and baby home has said it’s vital for adopted people like her to have access to their birth and medical records.
Sinéad Buckley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2015 when she was 43.
Now 48, she believes she could have been diagnosed with the condition earlier if she had access to her medical records.
Kildare musician Hally: 9,000 of my peers died in Mother and Baby institutions
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Naas singer-songwriter and music producer Hally, aka Ronan O’Halloran, last week wrote an open letter in the wake of the release of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission report, detailing his search for information about his past.
Born in 1973, he was adopted by a Naas family and raised in Kingsfurze.
He describes how, on December 18, 1991, the day after his 18th birthday, he tried to get information from the Cúnamh Adoption Agency (formerly CPRSI - Catholic Protection & Rescue Society of Ireland), just off South Anne Street in Dublin, pertaining to his birth and adoption.