article_snippet: A brother and sister who were separated as babies and put up for adoption five decades ago have been reunited after realising Niall Boylan and his biological sister Fran Kavanagh grew up just 500 metres apart.
article_snippet: Niall decision to speak out last year led indirectly to the reunion with sister Fran, who had begun the process of finding out more about the circumstances of his birth mother own birth.
article_snippet: His sister, who has two adult children, said: ‘To meet brother Niall after all these years is wonderful.
article_snippet: Both brother Niall, a father of three, and Fran have met Niall, a father of three, and Fran biological mother in recent years.
article_snippet: Fran gave birth to a third child, whose care Fran initially entrusted to Fran sister-in-law.
article_snippet: Fran eventually married and had a fourth child, and raised Fran two youngest children with Fran husband, who was never told of the existence of brother Niall and Fran.
article_snippet: Niall and Fran have considerable sympathy for Niall and Fran birth mother.
article_snippet: brother Niall said: ‘I feel sorry for their birth mother: their birth mother’s old and doesn’t remember a huge amount.
article_snippet: Fran said they [the St Patrick’s home mothers] could be sent out to clean a church, and come back to find they baby gone.
article_snippet: Fran said they would slip notes into they babies’ nappies in the hope that the adoptive parents would keep the adoptive parents and give the adoptive parents to the children later.
article_snippet: Fran Kavanagh (right) with her 27-year-old son (centre) and her 22-year-old daughter (left) together recently .
article_snippet: The pair plan to meet up again the future and Fran, who will be 50 this year, is holding their birth mother birthday party back home in Dublin.
highlights_snippet: Fran Kavanagh, 49, was also sent a letter and tracked brother online .
  
highlights_snippet: The mother-of-two said: 'To meet Niall after all these years is wonderful' 