As far as I recall they were adopted through a private adoption. Nothing wrong with that, and adoption records are confidential, meaning not shared and this, I suspect, is why some think "shady" when they mean not public.
Can you imagine the hoopla if the lefty media found out who the Irish biological parents were. . .and likely the children were the result of our-or-wedlock sex in a Catholic country. . .or were removed from their biological parents because of an unhealthy unsafe environment. . .you see where I am going with this. Protecting the privacy of the adoption in this case is the safest, best, kindest thing to do. Adoption is a very private thing.
Adoption is noble and truly Christian in nature. Wife and I tried to adopt for years and never were able to. . .PCS’d before we moved up high enough on the list. Private adoption? We did not have the well over over ten-thousand of dollars necessary to go that way.
see post 74