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POPSRate of foreign adoptions in Ireland one of Europe's highest The Trinity College research examined the experiences of 180 children aged between two and 17 who have been adopted from abroad. The report found that children were 17 months old when adopted, 80 per cent had spent some time in institutional care and they came from 15 different countries. Given the conditions in which they had typically spent their earliest months or years, the study found that most children had made an "extraordinary recovery".