The 81 years old woman Eileen Macken at first started this journey on the search of lucia, her mother at the early age of 19 years but she never found a positive news towards her mother's whereabout.
Last year, Eileen macken tried her luck into a Radio show, through the help of a genealogists who extended a good heart after hearing her story although Mrs Macken got a news for her old parent early this month.
Mrs Macken was amazed and a huge happened overwhelmed her as she made this speech “I can’t believe it, when I got the word that she was alive, all I want to do is to meet her” Mrs Macken told RTE Radio One’s Joe Duffy’s Liveline following the discovery.
“The doctors couldn’t understand ‘why don’t you know this, why don’t you know that.’ I got a bit upset once and I said, ‘Because I’m an orphan, I know nothing, absolutely nothing’,” she said.
All these years Mrs macken all always long thirsted to see any of her relatives because she felt so lonely and also she could know if there maybe any family traits or medical history to know the root problem affecting her two daughters.
She phoned back into the radio show last week to reveal she had found her birth mum after taking a DNA test.
“I’d love to go and scream it from a mountain, ‘I’m not an orphan anymore!’” she told the radio host.
The 61-year-old who grew up in an orphanage in Dublin hasn’t yet met her mother but has spoken to her on the phone and is hoping to make the trip “across the water”, when she recovers from a recent eye operation.
“I spoke to her on the phone but she couldn’t hear me,” she said. “She’s a bit like myself, I’ve only one good ear. “She kept saying, “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.
“All I want is to see her.”
Mrs Macken also found out she had two half-brothers who were still alive and were in their 70s.
Speaking about how the years of searching had affected her, Mrs Macken continued:
“The sadness that goes with being alone, even to this day, different things would set me off, I’d say, ‘if only I had a brother, if only I had a sister’, I think it’s just within you that you have no blood relatives. But I have now.”
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