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Joan McDermott was 16 and fresh out of boarding school when she met her boyfriend Tony, a medical student, in their rural hometown in County Cork, Ireland. Together for about a year, they had sex twice. She fell pregnant.
âI honestly didnât know that was how you got a baby,â says Joan, now 73 and living in the small coastal town of Cobh in Cork. âWhen I told my mother I was three monthsâ pregnant, she said to go upstairs and pack a small bag; Iâd be going away. Then she stood in the hallway while I rang my boyfriend. His family ran a well-known local business; he said he was sorry but that he could do nothing for me.â
O Gorman says adopted people will get birth certs and other information under new legislation
The minister has also launched a consultation process for a redress scheme for survivors of Mother And Baby Homes. By Órla Ryan Wednesday 10 Mar 2021, 5:10 PM Mar 10th 2021, 6:01 AM 18,039 Views 15 Comments
Minister Roderic O Gorman speaking in the Convention Centre today
Image: Oireachtas.ie
Image: Oireachtas.ie
Updated Mar 10th 2021, 5:10 PM
CHILDREN’S MINISTER RODERIC O’Gorman has said the government is committed to changing legislation so that adopted people will have access to their birth certificates and other related documents.
Speaking in the Dáil today, O’Gorman said the heads of a government Bill will be “ready for pre-legislative scrutiny in the coming weeks” and “will constitute an integrated set of ne
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Susan Lohan from Malahide was just six months old when she was placed into forced adoption in Dublin in 1963. The child of an unmarried mother, like thousands of others she fell victim to a callous church and State who deemed it immoral for women to care for a child out of wedlock.
When some 500 survivors of mother and baby homes logged onto a webinar last Tuesday lunchtime, they were confronted with an image of two besuited men either side of an oval table in the Sycamore Room of Government Buildings. Officials wearing facemasks sat socially distanced behind the two men.