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By James Ward
Paul Graham's 75 year fight for his identity after birth in Bethany Home left him a "citizen of nowhere."
The 75-year-old was born in Dublin mother and baby home and raised in Belfast but governments on both sides of border refuse to acknowledge he exists
Children's Minister James Reilly has rejected a request from survivors of children's institutions to include the Westbank Orphanage and other Protestant institutions in the proposed Mother & Baby homes inquiry following a meeting with representatives of the survivors.
Children's Minister Charlie Flanagan told representatives of the Bethany homes Survivors Campaign, and of other Protestant homes at a meeting today in Dublin that that he was 'anxious to include the other homes' as mentioned by the survivors in the Government's redress scheme.