Adopted as a baby, the journalist embarked in
adulthood on a difficult search for her birth mother. But when she
finally met Sarah, things didn’t go quite as expected.
Caitríona Palmer found out that she was adopted on her sixth birthday.
Her mother, Mary, told her as they made her bed. It explained why
Caitríona had been told she was special her whole life. From that moment
a sense of incompleteness grew within her.