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Death of Ireland's oldest citizen

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  • #52
    AreWeAlone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭AreWeAlone


    Egginacup wrote:
    What I'd like to know is did we have any centegenarians who spanned the 19th,20th and 21st centuries?
    Donkey Oaty wrote:
    Quite a few, actually - there's a web page here with their details.

    I see now on the same web page that the oldest woman in the state died on Saturday, 109 years and 296 days:

    Can't post the link above but it's here: finbarrconnolly.com


  • #53
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    some yank aul lad was a bangin a hole in one at 102

    hats off


  • #54
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    When you hear of these women who had 14+ children, and lived into their 90's... hard, hard women. These would have been women born into households where they didn't even have a proper working jacks, and if they did, it was outside.

    God forbid if you had a dose of the trots in the middle of the night.


  • #55
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,127 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    AreWeAlone wrote: »
    I see now on the same web page that the oldest woman in the state died on Saturday, 109 years and 296 days:

    Can't post the link above but it's here: finbarrconnolly.com

    That makes her older than Luke Dolan which means the original article I posted is slightly inaccurate. There was also a nun died in the US last May age 109 but she emigrated there in 1925.


  • #56
    Dexter Bip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Lauren Noisy Malaria wrote: »
    That's where you have it all wrong. I'm retired and it is the best time of my life. I can do anything I want, when I want. I have zero stress and can enjoy all the great things in life. The more years in retirement the better.

    Thirteen years for me. I intend to hit it young at heart and in mind. Like you it seems. Enjoy.


  • #57
    Dexter Bip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Lauren Noisy Malaria wrote: »
    That is one of the saddest things I have read on boards for some time.

    All about quality of life. And attitude. Some people are middle aged at 30. Others 70.


  • #58
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Surely if born in 1906 that makes him British not Irish...



    (said the agent provocateur)


  • #59
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,665 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    My Grandfather made it to 103. The last 12-18 months of his life were pretty miserable, but he had a fine quality of life until he was 101-102. He used to walk for miles and loved rasher fat and whiskey.


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