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3rd November 2023
02:42pm GMT
Credit: Brian Dowling[/caption]
He went on to say that he feared the possibility of his daughter reading something when she grows up that would make her feel disconnected from him: "The issue of infertility for me is a much bigger issue, and that is of our daughter.
"I don't want our daughter seeing something when she's older or reading something when she's older."
Brian also revealed his pain in relation to people speculating who baby Blake looked more like: "People would always say to me 'she's the image of Arthur' - that was like a knife in my heart each time people said that because they were unaware of my own issue."
He added: "The control was taken away from me. But now everybody knows the truth about my daughter's DNA. My name is not on her birth cert. It's just my sister Aoife and Arthur."
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The proud father also took the opportunity to vent his frustration about the slow rate of change regarding laws which have restricted his legal rights as a parent.
"Stephen Donnelly said about 45 or 46 weeks ago that there would be a change coming in [regarding parental right and surrogacy]," Brian stated.
"It would be Parent A, Parent B, Parent 1, Parent 2 - that's not happened."
