Yes you’re bang on ref difficulties and hurdles ref adoption in this country
N and S
My mate in Derry- civil servant and his woman working in the equivalent of Musgraves down here,
No shortage of bobs n love,
Were on the Catholic register for adoption for 7/9 years,
Only to be told as Sean was 37 and Donna 36 in all probability they’d be classed as too old to adopt a baby, tore them apart.
Sean through work raised thousands for our Romanian charity at the time,
N west of Ireland Romanian relief fund.
I picked Sean up in the airport, drive him to the main orphanage we funded,
Casa de copii
Fagaras
Transylvania .
Little girl of 11, Marianna who spoke English perfectly, did the translation fir Sean and introductions to the director etc etc,
Brought him around to meet the girls ( 137)
And staff,
Marianna was let down by an Italian family a month earlier,
Within a week Sean was telling his missus all about her ,etc etc
Sean’s wife Donna and him flew to Romania 6 weeks later ,
Donna fell in love with Marianna
Director owed our charity and we called in the favour,
As both Irish part were passed by the social workers back in Ireland ,
That little girl was Derry bound
She’s graduated out of Queens, married a Derry man
And is a mama of 2
Adoption should be made easier-
My mother fostered fir 35 years and adopted 2 little boys .
Personally if I hadn’t children of my own I’d 100 of gave fostered/ adopted
Thought he came across as a complete arsehole roaring over the woman caller to be honest. It was all very entertaining for a while anyway. Himself and Joe were never going to come to a meeting of the minds and they were both geared up to have a go off each other.
Can’t believe they sold out the Gaelic Grounds, that’s a huge crowd.