Hermitage Green’s Darragh Graham meets birth father who didn’t know he existed

Darragh Graham met his birth father who didn’t know he existed after a long journey to find his biological parents.

“I have brown skin and my parents are white, and my sister is too. I knew as I was growing up I was a little bit different.”“Maybe there was a self-protective thing going on internally where I didn't want to open myself up, whether I would be accepted or rejected. He now has a relationship with his birth mother, brother and the extended family, stating: “There's lots of them!”“I grew up knowing that I had ties to Trinidad,” he said. “All I knew was that my birth mother was Irish and my birth father was from Trinidad. I naturally assumed they both knew about me.

Speaking about his birth father’s reaction to the news of him having a son, Darragh said: “He was in shock. He wasn't able to speak. He continued: “He didn't really get over the initial shock. That lasted for the entire meeting, I was there for about two hours. It was more, I talked to him and he listened. I asked him at one point, did he believe everything that I was saying, and he said he did.

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