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6 September 2014

For decades I believed my parents were dead

A child migrant who was transported to Australia from a Northern Ireland children's home was allowed to believe he was an orphan for over four decades, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has heard.
Des McDaid, whose heartbreaking story as a child migrant was featured in the 2010 film Oranges and Sunshine, said he was 48 years old when he discovered that his mother was still alive.