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Winners of the 2009 Most Romantic Elderly Couple Competition, Anne and Michael Doyle, 74 and 80. Anne and Michael are from Finglas and have been married 55 years. They have five children and fourteen grandchildren. The Doyle's are pictured with Transition Year students from Mount Carmel Secondary School and Scoil Chaitriona at the award ceremony in the ILAC Shopping Centre on Valentine's Day.
Paddy Craddock, veteran marathon runner, Ireland's Fittest Great-Grandparent.
Frank Talbot, Crooner extraordinaire.
84 year old Maureen Armstrong, Ireland's
Oldest Women's Mini Marathon runner
escorted by the Garda.
Picture courtesy of: The Irish Daily Mail. Taken by John Cogill.
SENIOR CITIZENS MARCH ON DAIL EIREANN - Fifteen thousand senior citizens expressed their anger at the government's attempt to means test the free medical card for the over 70's. Their attendance at a protest rally at Dail Eireann, organized by the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament on Thursday 22 October 2008 resulted in the proposal being withdrawn. An outstanding victory for Ireland's senior citizens. Friends of the Elderly are proud to have played their part.
Peter and Alicia Dowling, 96 and 91 years old from County Meath, Ireland's Most Romantic Elderly Couple 2008.
95 year old Maisie Flood - Ireland's Oldest Liverpool Supporter!
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Eileen McGuiness 85 From Dublin with her grandson, great grandson and great great grandson all born on the same day - 7th August 2009.
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Photos courtesy of Colin Keegan, Collins Photo Agency.
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Anthony O'Malley-Daly (72) from Ballyshanon, Co. Donegal, who has Parkinson's diseas, at the Parachute Club in Co. Offaly with instructor Caroline Cassidy, before jumping from 4,000ft to raise money for the Parkinson's Association.
Congratulations to Sean McGuinness, saxaphone player with The Bolton Street Band - Ireland's oldest boy band, for winning the Lord Mayor of Dublin's Unsung Hero Award.
Lord Mayor Eibhlin Byrne in the Mansion House
with Sean. Photo Courtesy of the Irish Times
1 December 2008, old friends reunite under Clery's clock at the Friends of the Elderly Dublin City Senior Citizen's Shopping Day
Paddy and Maisie just good friends.
Jackie Charlton with 95 year old Tom Kerrerick from Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland's Oldest Fisherman. Tom qualified for the World Cup Trout Angling Championship on the 3 August 2009 after trying for 60 years.
Photo courtesy of Matt Kavanagh of The Irish Times
Sean, Des, Paddy and Willie, founding members of The Bolton Street Band, the Friends of the Elderly resident band.
Sean and Charlie, from the Bolton Street Band, play some mean sax.
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