A woman discovered by chance that she was conceived using a donated egg and has written to a national newspaper seeking advice.

The college-age woman wrote to the Irish Times to say she was doing some administrative work for her mother who is sick with cancer when she came across papers from a fertility clinic detailing an assisted conception using a donor egg from twenty years ago.

Realising she is the child of this donor-IVF, but was never told by her parents, she said she is now “very angry”.

“Of course, I am glad that they had me, but they should have told me that I had a different genetic mother,” she wrote.

She shares the same physical appearance as her mother, but she found out that too was intentional: “I have the same skin tone and eye colour as my mum, but once I completed the translation of the form from the fertility clinic, I found that these were also the characteristics of the egg donor”.

She added: “While I would be curious to meet the woman who donated the egg, I would be really keen to find out if she has any of her own children. I have no siblings, so would be eager to have the opportunity to find out if I had any brothers or sisters”.