Five-star Violet gets another diploma

VIOLET Turnbull has had a lifelong thirst for education. And she’s not letting up.

The remarkable lady, who remained tightlipped on her age, was presented with a diploma in development studies from University College Cork’s Centre for Adult Continuing Education on Saturday — her fifth diploma in the last 20 years.

Violet, who says she is “in the borrowed years of later life,” took an archaeology course at the centre in 1978 with Professor Michael O’Kelly — the man who led the excavation of New Grange in 1963.