'I no longer feel like an orphan...I'm the happiest person alive': 81-year-old woman who found birth mother

Irish woman Eileen Macken has tracked down her birth mother following a 61-year search that began when she was just 19.

'I no longer feel like an orphan...I'm the happiest person alive': 81-year-old woman who found birth mother

Irish woman Eileen Macken has tracked down her birth mother following a 61-year search that began when she was just 19.

The 81-year-old rang into Liveline a year ago and was very upset about her plight to find her biological mother.

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