However, ultimately new regulations were put in place last month which meant that they did not have to undergo mandatory hotel quarantine, after their journey. "I had to protect my son, I’m his mother and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do to protect him,” Sinead told host Ryan Tubridy. It wasn’t until the parents were over in Ukraine and after their baby was born that the country was added to the mandatory hotel quarantine list. In Ireland, the legal mother is the person who gives birth to the child- regardless of whose eggs were used. So, in this country, Sinead is not her son's legal mother and she cannot apply for guardianship until Theo is two years old.

Source: Irish Independent May 15, 2021 09:24 UTC