The first of potentially dozens of cases over illegal adoptions in the Republic has been formally launched in the high court in Belfast. Mr FitzSymons, an actor who has appeared in the television series Game of Thrones and Line of Duty, has hit out over the envisaged lengthy timescale. However a court has discretion to grant an order which may mirror to some extent the other system for a specific case or set of cases,” he told The Irish Times. His adoption was arranged for John FitzSymons, a pharmaceutical chemist from Warrenpoint in Co Down and Patricia Bradley, a qualified social worker from Co Tyrone. Mr FitzSymons said his adoptive parents, both now dead, “had loved me and provided for me as best they could”.

Source: The Irish Times January 31, 2020 02:26 UTC