Philomena Lee

Street art in Dublin in 2013 protests Ireland's system of adopting the babies of unmarried mothers from mother and baby homes, which were often run by Catholic nuns. (Flickr/William Murphy)

Irish bill to help adoptees find birth information falls short, critics say

More than 1,000 amendments to a proposed Irish law for adoptees aim to push the bill to more fully address the long-term effects of former practices of secrecy at Catholic and other religious-run institutions.

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