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Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (24 Jan 2017): Fintan Warfield: ...and mother and baby homes and was State policy even in the Adoption Act 1952, which legally branded children born outside wedlock as "illegitimate". "Illegitimate" people were banned from joining the Garda Síochána by the State and banned by the church from becoming priests without special papal dispensation. This clause was only removed in 1987. The disparity in application...

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