For six decades this 81-year-old Irish woman kept desperately looking for her birth mother and was finally united with her three weeks ago. Thanks to DNA testing, she’s “not an orphan anymore.”
Eileen Macken started searching for her biological mother when she was 19. She grew up at the Kirwan House orphanage on North Circular Road in Dublin and had lost hope of ever finding her mother. She thought was likely dead.
