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A former ice cream parlour worker who says she had to put in 90 hours a week at times has told a tribunal that her hours were so long her baby son did not recognise her by the time her employment ended.
A manager who told her boss she couldn’t make it to a conference because her back had gone out, but had a trip to Lanzarote booked for the same dates, has lost a €90,000 claim for unfair dismissal.
Gardaí are coordinating a national response to reports of illegal adoptions and forged birth registrations amid calls for an inquiry into the practices.
The force is considering the most appropriate action to take in cases where there is evidence that crimes have been committed but too much time has elapsed to allow a proper investigation, two senior sources said.
A trawl of historic complaints about illegal adoptions across all garda divisions and a review of the files is likely to be a first step.
The National Protective Services Bureau, whose remit includes child protection, is co-ordinating the gardaí s response.
Proceedings
Solicitor Neil Cosgrave told the court he was acting for 10 plaintiffs who were taking legal actions against the society, and warned that if the liquidation was to proceed the society would be âreleasedâ from the proceedings.
He said the plaintiffs were âseeking to finally establish the true facts surrounding their births and subsequent illegal adoptions, with these fundamental facts having been concealed from them in some cases for over six decadesâ.
In his affidavit Mr Cosgrave said the proceedings involve âmultifaceted, multigenerational allegations, which to a disturbing degree involved the repeated and systematic felonies principally of kidnapping, forgery, utterance of false instruments (to wit False Birth Certificates) and conspiracy for wrongful concealmentâ.