'Phone box babies' put out call for long-lost sibling

RTE doc features abandoned trio's hunt for their fourth family member

- CIARA O'LOUGHLIN

THREE people who were abandoned as babies in Ireland in the 1960s and later discovered they are siblings believe they have a fourth brother or sister.

David McBride, born in 1962, was left in a car in a Belfast driveway. John Dowling, whose birth year is 1965, was found in a Drogheda phone box, and 1968 baby Helen Ward was discovered in a Dundalk phone box.

All three were adopted and raised in different parts of Ireland.

However, in 2020, Helen and David discovered they were brother and sister through DNA technology.

The pair then reunited on the ITV series Long Lost Family.