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SARAH COYLE, BELIEVED to be Ireland’s oldest person at the age of 108, has died.
Ms Coyle passed away on Monday, 14 July, ten days before she was to turn 109. She was born on 24 July, 1916.
Her grandson Thomas said that she died peacefully surrounded by her family. She was living with her daughter Marian Gilligan in Castleknock, Co Dublin.
In an interview with the Irish Times in April this year, Ms Coyle’s daughter spoke about her mother’s childhood in Co Wicklow. She had significant memories of the Black and Tans’ operations in her locality as a girl, as well as memories of the War of Independence (1919-1921) and the Civil War (1922-1923).
Ms Coyle married and settled in Drumcondra, having four children, two of whom sadly died as newborns.
Ms Coyle’s sister Lily was 103 in April. Her brother Andy reached the age of 101.
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Irish lads in Dublin, ya that sounds about right. Bad jokes aside, Will Farrell seems like mad craic
I already know Ryan will make a mess of this. Are they appearing on Graham Norton same time Friday night?
Looking forward to another cringe fest by Tubridy this Friday
Tubridy – so will TELL ME ABOUT YOU’RE IRISH HERITAGE!! Are Irish yeah???
Forget the stereotype about Ireland’s drinking culture.. We’re the best craic in the world :)
Great. Thanks to Will they will be putting up the price of alcohol again.
WE’RE GOING STREAKING!!
Recorded interviews for the late late are lame.
Turdreddy with 2 yanks and a clap machine.
Whopee
Yeah ok, laugh at the drunken paddy stereotype. I don’t give a gick what they think
Amen.
More Drunken Leprechaun Booze Up Cr@p from weirdo closet T totalling yogamaster kiddy entertainers .
Any chance of banning booze altogether?
I’m sick of the previous generation gargling up their fat pensions and abusing their bodies with cream buns and fags and then expecting so called “doctors” to work miracles on their carcasses with extortionate pills and procedures while we all foot the bill for their gluttony and exuberance.
Just listen to the f€ckers.
“Ohh in my day all the food was natural and organic” as they chomp into a bar of chocolate with the HSE false teeth.
Do you want salt on those chips?
I’ll have mine made with organic freshly picked organic potatoes lightly fried in cold pressed virgin organic olive oil.
Maybe a little Himalayan salt on the side.
Thanks.
With extra organic please.
I hate these blurred lines
Scotch all round?
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