This week, the country was elated to see an 81-year-old Irish woman meeting her long lost mum for the first time since birth.
Eileen Macken grew up in Kirwan House orphanage on the North Circular Road in Dublin and began searching for her mum, aged 19.
Last year she desperately appealed for help for a happy ending to the heartbreaking 60-year search for her mum.
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With the help of a genealogist who heard the appeal, Eileen remarkably discovered that her 103-year-old mum, Elizabeth, was still alive and living in Scotland.
And on Saturday, Elizabeth celebrated her 104th birthday in style, with a phone call and banquet of flowers from herdaughter.
In an interview with the Sunday Independent, Ms Macken said she had the special present lined up.
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"I sent her a big bouquet of flowers in the colours that she loves - and would you believe it, she has the very same taste as me," she said.
"Then I called her and I had all my family around me as we chatted."
Speaking about finding her long-lost mother after a 60-year search, she said: "This will never, ever leave me. It has filled my heart where there was a missing piece and I will have that forever now."
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Discussing whether neighbourhood must be the luckiest in Ireland, as another local won the Lotto jackpot there last month, she said: "This is more than winning the Lotto.
"You get money and you spend it and those things don't last, but this will never, ever leave me."
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