Image: TwitterThe amazing moment came after a 60 year search.
In what has to be the most heart warming story you'll read today, an 81-year-old Irish woman has met her 103-year-old mother... for the first time since she was a baby.
Eileen Macken grew up in the Bethany Home orphanage in Dublin and has spent the best part of her life looking for her birth mother.
And finally just the other day, a genealogist was able to track her down in Scotland.
Ms Macken told RTE: “Once I heard that, nothing would stop me trying to get to see her.”
Eileen said she travelled to her mother's home in Scotland and knocked on the door, where she was greeted by a man who was actually her half-brother.
She said: "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'".
She also said that she had a "great chat" with her mother during her three-day trip to Scotland.
"She was thrilled and she never let go of my hand."
This is Eileen Macken who is 82 who has just met her mother Elizabeth who will be 104 this Saturday after over 60 years searching @joeliveline #liveline pic.twitter.com/n6ghSdwDnh
— Liveline (@rteliveline) May 9, 2019
Eileen recalled: “I went over to see her and she’s the most beautiful lady, lovely family, they gave me a great welcome.
“We came in and, honestly, I haven’t got over the acceptance that I got.
“They accepted me and I had a great chat with my mother.”
Isn't that just incredible!
