Thirty Irish centenarians, who featured in the award-winning Older Than Ireland documentary, may yet be dazzling Hollywood A-listers with their words of wisdom, if the film is chosen for an Oscar nomination on January 24.

On Monday April 11. Cork County Council are holding the launch of the Cork Age Friendly County Strategy 2016-2021 at 10.30am in the Foyer of County Hall. 

Life (15A) opens in 1955, with Nick Ray’s East of Eden about to be released on an unsuspecting public and James Dean (Dane DeHaan) just another Hollywood unknown. 

One of the country’s longest-lived women, 104-year-old Mary O’Leary from North Cork, will be laid to rest today.

A new documentary about people aged 100 and over challenges our beliefs about the aged, says Margaret Jennings.