Last Saturday, Breda O’Brien dealt with the issue of Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) in her column in the Irish Times.

She makes the point that the AHR industry here is completely unregulated here, and that, because children conceived through sperm or egg donation have no right to know who their biological parents are, there is nothing to prevent them from falling love with and marrying other donor-conceived children, who might be their half siblings.

Given the lack of interest, never mind outrage, at the plight of donor-conceived children, she suggested that maybe “deep down we are not that interested in the rights of children – especially if they interfere with those of older people?”