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.

With another year at Examiner Towers almost over we will - over the next few weeks - be taking a look at irishexaminer.com's most read stories for 2015. We continue this series today with our lifestyle section.

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