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Do you know a Centenarian?

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481 people in Ireland passed had their 100 years birthday in 2019. Anyone have a relative who is over 100? Or what age is the oldest person you know, mine is 94.

A review of the presidency and spending at Áras an Úachtraráin for 2019 has revealed details of the Centenarian Bounty, which was first introduced in 1940 by President Douglas Hyde. The review shows that 481 Irish people received the payment from the State last year, with 374 of those people living in Ireland and 107 living overseas.

In 2006, the government to extended the eligibility criteria for the scheme so that all Irish citizens born on the island of Ireland are eligible to apply. Of those 481 Irish citizens who reached 100 years old, 395 were women and 86 were men.

The overall figure is comfortably the highest recorded since the beginning of President Michael D Higgins’ time in Áras and Úachtaráin.

https://www.thejournal.ie/presidency-costs-5034085-Mar2020/

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Ubbquittious

My great grand uncle died there a few months back he just about made iit to 100. Didn't know him very well as he lived in Holland but did visit him a few times. Very easy going lad always cheerful, was driving an old 5 cylinder audi till well into his 90s only the last couple years he wasn't in great health and spent the last year in a home.

.anon.

My grandparents' next-door-neighbour was 100 when she died last year (quad bike accident). I hadn't seen her since she was a sprightly 95. At that stage, she was still single-handedly cooking Christmas dinner for her entire extended family every year.

WoollyRedHat

No but I used to be friends with a centurion.

ofcork

Grandmother died a few years ago at 103.

cdeb

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

No but I used to be friends with a centurion.

Was his name Naughtius Maximus? In the Jerusalem Garrison?

namenotavailablE

My maternal grandmother lived to be about 101-and-a-half and she smoked until her late 60's. Her husband died young, though, in his sixties. My paternal grandparents were early nineties when they died.

WoollyRedHat

cdeb wrote: »

Was his name Naughtius Maximus? In the Jerusalem Garrison?

Omg yes, the very chap, were you friends or acquaintance s? Good lad, except for all the slaughtering.

ByTheSea2019

I had two relatives that lived to be 101 though they have passed away now.

My favourite thing is when someone really old is intereviewed on the news and asked what the secret is and they say something like "a double whiskey every night" or something that would go against all medical advice.:D

bogwalrus

Grand aunt is 102 and still thriving. Glass of wine a day, some chocolate and a few sitting exercises is what she says is what has kept her going.

Asked enda kenney to give her a call on her 100th and he did. She has been a fg supporter all her life and liked his style of politics. For someone born in 1918 she has seen so much. Black and tans blew up her house because she refused to change the name of her shop to English. She is a legend in kerry

Wibbs

.anon. wrote: »

My grandparents' next-door-neighbour was 100 when she died last year (quad bike accident).

:eek: Like a boss to the very end.

corner of hells

bogwalrus wrote: »

Grand aunt is 102 and still thriving. Glass of wine a day, some chocolate and a few sitting exercises is what she says is what has kept her going.

Asked enda kenney to give her a call on her 100th and he did. She has been a fg supporter all her life and liked his style of politics. For someone born in 1918 she has seen so much. Black and tans blew up her house because she refused to change the name of her shop to English. She is a legend in kerry

Absolutely a legend , she must have 4 or 5 years old when she bought that house , feckin' Black and Tans.

I can remember attending a funeral of a relative of my wife in about 1996 who fought in WW1, he was born in 1897.

aratsarse101

I’m very friendly with a woman who is 104. Lives independently, reads newspaper everyday, knows all current affairs and has opinions on all. Leo, Boris, Trump, Biden , Micheal etc. Her father was born in 1860. Imagine that. And when she was young, the elderly people had all lived during the famine.

COVID

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

No but I used to be friends with a centurion.

Was it the great Steve Smith of Australia's first XI?

bb1234567

.anon. wrote: »

My grandparents' next-door-neighbour was 100 when she died last year (quad bike accident). I hadn't seen her since she was a sprightly 95. At that stage, she was still single-handedly cooking Christmas dinner for her entire extended family every year.

What?? That seems like such a waste or something for such amazing biological longevity to ultimately succumb to preventable accident

bb1234567

namenotavailabl wrote: »

My maternal grandmother lived to be about 101-and-a-half and she smoked until her late 60's. Her husband died young, though, in his sixties. My paternal grandparents were early nineties when they died.

Mad to think she lived another length of time almost as long as her husbands's lifepsan over again after he died

rainbowtrout

I live in Roscommon and there are quite a few people in the local nursing homes who are over 100. But there's one guy who I see regularly (well when we weren't on lockdown) out for lunch. He goes out for lunch (dinner) each day with his nephew who seems to be his carer. When we were back to Level 3 in September I started seeing him out again when I was out for lunch. Good to see him out and about. He's going to 104 in January.