Stamullen adoption story on TV tonight

A little Stamullen girl who featured in the hugely successful documentary series, ‘Adoption Stories’ will feature again tonight in TV3’s new series ‘Adoption Stories – What Happened Next’.
Liwen, an adorable little girl who was adopted from China by Angela Martin and Ciaran Flanagan will feature in tonight’s episode the new series on TV3 at 8.30pm.
The new series revisits some of the most memorable stories from the first two series and takes a look at where they are now.  
In tonight’s first episode of the series, we met four-year-old Liwen. Her adoptive parents had seen pictures of babies abandoned in China due to their one child policy and felt they could offer a safe, loving home with them and their three sons, Kyran, Tommy and Sean.
Angela and Ciaran spoke of the adoption process here, the length of time it took, what was entailed and what happened after they received their declaration to adopt from the Adoption Authority of Ireland. We saw their first meeting with Liwen, who was about fourteen months old at the time, and what life had been like since for all of them.
At the time, Angela and Ciaran had started the process again, in order to adopt another child from China, so Liwen would have a sibling she could return to China with, if they wanted to trace their natural families. This would complete their family, as five children was the most the authorities would allow them to have. The night TV3 finished filming with them, Angela discovered she was pregnant.
A few weeks ago, TV caught up with Liwen, who has grown into a lovely nine-year old and shares her very pink bedroom with four-year-old Moya, a bundle of laughter. Like all sisters, they play happily together and then fight over nothing. Liwen is starting to ask questions about her natural mother, particularly what she might look like and what she might be interested in. She is starting to grasp the one child policy that lead to her adoption, but she also dreams of inventing a time machine that would allow her to travel back to the time of her birth to see her mother.
The boys are all grown up and gorgeous. None of them see Liwen as being any different to Moya, their natural sister. In fact, they all think that seeing a child from another culture as part of an Irish family is not unusual any more. To them, they are a normal, everyday family and do nothing different to every other Irish family, even though Liwen is, as she puts it, ‘Chirish’.