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. 

Ireland's oldest person, Kathleen Snavely, died yesterday aged 113 years and 140 days.

Your report on centenarian Kathleen Snavely, from Co Clare (Irish Examiner, February 16), the oldest living Irish-born person, who turned 113 on Monday, was a welcome respite from the media-led indulgence of so-called ‘celebrities’.

A 113 year-old Irish woman, currently living in New York, is on course to become the oldest person in Irish history in just over a month.