When Trinity College Dublin released the first study on intercountry adoption in 2007, Ireland was a European outlier with the highest per capita adoption rates. It found that between 1991, when it became legal to adopt children from abroad, and 2007, 4,600 children were adopted into Ireland.  This, it would later transpire, was the peak.  Intercountry adoptions have declined in line with international trends, especially since the introduction of the Adoption Act in 2010, which transposed more rigid international requirements into domestic law.  As the sector has shrunk, so too has the number of agencies accredited to support the Adoption…

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