January 22, 2019

Ever feel your family’s not the ‘norm’? It turns out the internet may be bad place to search for that answer, until now… Katie and Radha find out more from two unconventional families, Louise who was conceived via sperm donor, and Claire who was adopted.

January 22, 2019

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January 16, 2019

In 2018, IVF officially turned 40 – this incredible science and the people’s it’s helped (or not helped) have been in the news a lot. But what of the children? The IVF Generation. Does it matter any more if you were made in a laboratory? What do you need to know and what do you have the right to know about where you came from?

• News writer and producer, Louise McLoughlin, who was part of the UK’s first generation of donor conceived IVF babies, will give a talk on her search to find her biological family.

January 16, 2019

"Louise McLoughlin was just 13 when the very foundations of her happy childhood were ripped from under her. Her parents sat her down one day and told her they had something important to tell her."

August 27, 2015

"Student journalist Louise McLoughlin from Greystones has been awarded funds to travel to Uganda to examine the lack of contraception there and explore how it contributes to illegal, unsafe and sometimes fatal abortions.

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Louise has received the funding under the Simon Cumbers Media Fund Student Scheme which was set up in memory of the Irish journalist who was killed in Saudi Arabia in 2004, while working with the BBC."