Longest-married couples asked to share secrets of success

Maybe it’s being truthful or being tactful, maybe it’s constant closeness or lots of space, but whatever the secrets to staying together are, Ireland’s longest-married couples are being invited to add their top tips.

A search is under way to find the country’s most enduring pairs and hear from them firsthand just what they believe keeps a marriage going through good times and bad.

The six couples who have celebrated the most wedding anniversaries will be invited to be special guests at the annual National Grandparents Pilgrimage to Knock, where they will be accommodated in a local hotel on September 14.