Near-biblical flooding won't stop 97-year-old Evelyn going to Mass in Offaly

Even floods of near biblical proportions couldn’t stop one determined nonagenarian from attending Mass in Offaly.

Spirited 97-year-old Banagher woman Ev (Evelyn) Kennedy wasn’t going to be deterred from Mass by the deluge, which has seen her family marooned for the past month.

The great grandmother, who has been living with her son since the flooding began in December, insisted on attending Mass at the weekend despite being surrounded on all sides by floodwater.