A woman who has spent 60 years searching for her mother has met her for the first time.Eileen Macken, 81, who lives in Dublin, first began her...
Eileen Macken, 81, who lives in Dublin, first began her search for her birth mother when she was 19.Ms Macken appealed to Irish broadcaster RTE to help her find her mother after a strenuous search to find her relative had given her no answers.After the programme put her in touch with a genealogist, they discovered her biological parent, Elizabeth Macken, was living in Scotland.
“I told him I was from Ireland and that I had found my mum here and could we come in to see her, and he said ‘certainly’,” Ms Macken said.“They accepted me and I had a great chat with my mother,” she added.“We had three days of wonderful happiness that I’ve never ever had before. “I don’t think I’ve done any work in the house [since she came back], I’m that happy. I’m going around singing.
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