A woman who was blocked by her biological mum from receiving crucial medical files has told how she has “forgiven” her.She never met her birth mother and had no desire to until she fell ill in her 30s and was asked for her medical history that she was unable to provide.
Every day we'll send you a roundup e-mail of all the latest news. Local Irish news, UK and international news, local and national Sport and entertainment news , all in one handy e-mail. “But now I have met my cousins, I was an only child, I understand she was living in fear. She was terrified her secret would be found out.“My mother lived to a great age, she was 92 when she died, and one of her closest friends, a priest, who was with her up until she died, said she never mentioned me. “No one down there knew I existed until a few weeks before I arrived. She took it to her grave”.
Breda was adopted on April 26 by Christina and William O’Sullivan in Skerries, where she has lived all her life and raised her daughter with her husband. She then spent years pleading with the controversial St Patrick’s Guild Adoption Agency in Dublin to release her information. She said “With data protection, mum had died so I could get a lot of the records. I realise now Glin is a small place and Bridget, or Babe as she was known, was very much loved in the area.