Aging with attitude: 94-year-old Moya says age is just a number when you’re active

Moya Connelly may be 94 years old but she’s not about to stop and worry about it. Margaret Jennings meets the recently crowned Grandparent of the Year

SHE did her Leaving Certificate in 1941, but that didn’t stop Moya O’Connell from having a go at sitting the Junior Cert English and History papers a couple of years ago, in her early 90s, just to keep her brain active.

When it came to collecting her results she got an A in History and a B in English, something she just took in her stride, despite the 75-year gap since she had last sat a State exam. The urge to sit the papers as a challenge, came when she was attending a creative writing class, which she still goes to weekly to write poetry.