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KEES AND ANNEKE Vogelaar have been married for 54 years. They moved from Holland to Ireland over 50 years ago.
They ran an apple farm, and count Bulmers among their customers.
Their eldest son Mike, who was a father of four himself, died due to a heart attack several years ago.
“We were so lucky to have him so long even though it was awful [when he died],” they said.
Tonight, the Vogelaars and seven other couples will appear in an RTÉ documentary entitled Golden: Our 50 Years of Marriage, where they cover how they’ve managed to make their marriages work for so long.
Ireland may look unrecognisable to the way it did when these couples first met, and this programme will chart the key events in these couples’ lives, from their wedding day, becoming parents, death and illness and what makes love and marriage work, against a backdrop of huge social and cultural change in the country.
From the old photographs, faded letters to the vintage clothes and old memorabilia, the couples take a trip down memory lane and describe their lifelong journeys together.
The programme features:
Golden: Our 50 Years of Marriage airs tonight at 9.35pm on RTÉ One.
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I must have the most childish sense of humour because that had me in stitches!
You’re not alone. I got a great laugh out of that.
Me too Sam. Hilarious.
I’ve no idea why I read them with a Jamaican accent playing in my head.
He’s talking Jive, like in Airplane
Was it leprechaun language
Molly oh god a Jamaican accent makes even funnier! I need to step away from this article before I’m committed!
A happy Gock Dinna iPhone to all flash drives today
Welcome to my world Sam :)
That doesn’t surprise me given the exaggerated upper class accent he has affected since he became president. Does he think his natural accent does not befit the office? In his recent trip to England he sounded more Received Pronunciation English than Irish.
His accent has nothing to do with it! He was speaking Irish, the youtube subtitling gizmo was trying to reproduce the sounds in English…..
He always spoke like that. So what?
Maybe the subtitling software found itself burdened with the impossible task of deciphering the Irish language as it is spoken by someone with an accent associated with the British and former Irish upper-class.
I dislike home more than any other politician in Ireland. It really irked me the other day when he suggested that the Irish people could feel hopeful for the future as growth was returning to the economy – if the government had followed the left-wing policies that he always advocates, naively, then there would be no growth and things would have gotten much worse.
*him
I like to think of Michael D and the missus watching this and laughing their asses off.
Almost as bad as his poetry.
First time a politician made any sense on TV?
He looks like Mickalene from the Quiet Man
Or her man in Darby O’Gill
Bloody hilarious!
Is the video blocked?
It’ll go viral if it’s not!
Well send them the proper translation then and stop whinging about it. Didn’t need a translation thanks.
You ok hun?
Read this back to the tune of Amhrán na bhFiann, it should be our new national anthem!
In other words, Aras an Uachtarain didn’t bother their @rses uploading their own Irish subtitles. How incredibly lazy and half-assed, cos it only takes a couple of minutes to do that.
With Enda being an ex teacher as well lol.
That’s hilarious !!! Although it’s also to be noted that the Irish you guys quoted is also spelt wrong in each section at least once!! #getanirishjournalist #callme
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