Ageing with Attitude: Time to craic on with fitness programme

Margaret Jennings hears how Corry Uí Dhálaigh — a passionate advocate of exercise in later years — is inspired by her mother, who is still active in her 80s

ALTHOUGH nowadays we are bombarded with information about the importance of exercise for healthy ageing, it can really help when we can see those benefits in someone who has walked the talk.

That’s been the case for 57-year-old Corry Uí Dhálaigh, who watched her mother Patsy Olsthoorn, take up an exercise routine in her 50s after rearing 10 children and who is still very active as she faces her 84th birthday.