Patricia Doherty

views and opinions are my own; advocate for the rights of adoptees, birth mothers and children

[Patricia Doherty @tridoherty]

@IrishRail Delays on the Dublin/Sligo train today made more bearable because of the very helpful Theresa, who shared information and kept people informed. Great asset to @IrishRail

[Brendan Courtney @BrendanCourtney]

Ok’ so your mates do stuff that makes you think “Gosh she is talented” - THEN @PantiBliss DOES THIS AND YOU EXPLODE WITH PRIDE! (to all the young Gays! It’s gonna be ok! I wish I saw this at 14 at home in Tallaght! It would have convinced me, it’s gonna be ok) love you Rory ❤️

[Gerry Bridgett @GerryBridgett]

@TheContinuityA1 @jrc1921

[TUAMBABIESFAMLYGROUP @tuambabiesfami1]

#tuambabies @AnnetteMckay15
@APSARA1956
The theme around the investigation, let's have a chat. Still these Garda are only following directions from above ?? No not God....Our Lords and Masters..
No justice for our Families No justice Survivors. Egregious breaches of Human Rights

[✳☃🆗Andrew Brennan✳☃🆎 @AndrewSB49]

State was aware of illegal birth registrations 'for decades' but did not act ~ #tuambabies ~ https://t.co/qHeSpDFZ4W

[Caelainn Hogan @CaelainnH]

The Irish state is debating legislation in our names today that could finally uphold adopted people's right to birth information and identity. But #adoptionrights activists testify to how this bill, without amendment, still discriminates and denies access.
https://t.co/6UkJPyOGvi

[Caelainn Hogan @CaelainnH]

A nun called Susan Lohan a "destroyer of lives" for seeking information about her own identity. The Irish state is denying thousands of adopted people like her the right to their information. I wrote about @adoptionrights and their urgent call for change. https://t.co/zRVCiCt7HL

[Susan Lohan @susanlohan]

Successive Irish govts (@FineGael & @fiannafailparty in particular but now including @greenparty_ie !) have pursued a "deny til they die" model for decades to cover up their funding & collusion in #forcedadoption #Illegaladoption in Ireland.

[Susan Lohan @susanlohan]

Thanks @SheilaPAhern - you & @MaryRafteryFund fought a long hard battle too. Luckily for us, legal & sociology experts like @maeveorourke @maireadenright @cmcgettrick @Ka_ODonnell r ready, willing & able to contest the nonsense that @rodericogorman @dcediy persist in touting

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Excellent article today about @susanlohan, who has fought for adoptee’s rights in ireland, including right to their own birth certs. I never knew that somebody proposed a law criminalising contact between adoptees and birth families in 2001! Jesus wept.
https://t.co/4wkDs7iXmr

[Simon McGarr @[email protected] @Tupp_Ed]

The #Irelandsdirtylaundry programme was a documentary in the truest sense of the word. By letting women and their children give a first person account of their experiences, it became a historical document itself.

Centring first hand testimony is a standing rebuke to the state.

[OurMaternityHospital #MakeNMHOurs #CACOWH @OurMatHosp]

We hope you've watched #IrelandsDirtyLaundry over the last two weeks @MichealMartinTD @DonnellyStephen @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD @EamonRyan.
Now tell us again why the Sisters of Charity have any involvement in our new National Maternity Hospital.
#MakeNMHOurs #HavingNunOfIt

[Mary Buckley @marybuckley549]

Over 90% of women incarcerated in magdalens died without compensation, victims of the toxic partnership of the catholic church and the Irish state. They must not be forgotten #IrelandsDirtyLaundry

[Patricia Doherty @tridoherty]

The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis https://t.co/E8ao85YbSj

[Orla Keegan @orlaeye]

Real people living with intense psychological and legal challenges. A friend told me ‘We have no legal status, we are strictly speaking still illegal.. & our adoptive names are legally incorrect as are any contracts, marriages, passports’. Appalling anomalies #RTEInvestigates

[Dr. Conall Ó Fátharta @ococonuts]

None of this would have happened without the survivors, adopted people and advocacy groups fighting for it.

[Patricia Doherty @tridoherty]

I love Sue (& Jackie Weaver of course!)

[Alan O' Rourke @alanorourke]

I think it's clear that men are too emotional to be in politics or positions of power.