Sinead Buckley, born in a mother and baby home in Northern Ireland in 1972, feels excluded from a new compensation scheme, leading her to feel abandoned once again. Despite her difficult childhood and a long search for her birth parents, she won’t qualify for Ireland’s €800m redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes. The exclusion has left her feeling rejected and questioning her identity, as she was born just across the border in Northern Ireland but adopted in Dublin. The scheme’s criteria include compensation for mothers who stayed in eligible institutions, with payments based on the length of stay, but former child residents qualify only if they spent six months or more in such homes.
Mother and baby homes: NI-born survivor ‘abandoned again’
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