‘You just live every day, you reach 100 and you don’t pass many remarks on it’

For younger people for whom a big ‘roundy’ birthday this year is a crisis, rescue is at hand in the form of sound advice from those approaching their first century on earth, writes Sorcha Crowley

Sr Stan Kent (102), at Aperee Living, Conna Nursing Home, Co Cork, with some of the team,  Remya Rajneesh (front left) and Darragh O'Connell and (back from left) Marie Hayes, Lisa McCarthy, and Susha Nair. 'Keep going. I didn’t stop at 100,' says Sr Stan. Picture: Denis Minihane

Turning 30 in the new year and feeling blue? Rescue is at hand — from the babies of 1924.

Of the 63,402 babies born in Ireland that year, there are 748 still alive and kicking, as of this week. Unsurprisingly, women outnumber men by 2:1. There are 524 women compared to just 224 men due to turn 100 this year, the Department of Social Protection’s latest records show.