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IN AN RTE documentary to be screened tomorrow night, the daughter of legendary agony aunt Frankie Byrne and TV star Frank Hall tells the story of how she was put up for adoption and how she was reunited with her mother in 1983. Valerie McLoughlin also talks about how her father's true identity was kept from her.
Famed for comforting the nation's broken-hearted, the show reveals that Byrne turned to alcohol after being forced to give up her only child for adoption during the 1950s.
McLoughlin was finally reunited with her mother just 10 years before Byrne died from an alcohol-related ilness.
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