Centenarian snub - Nonsensical rule must be changed

SELDOM has the State acted in a more unedifying manner than in its shoddy treatment of centenarian Hanoria O’Leary.

Imagine her dismay on learning she would not qualify for the customary €2,540 award when she reached the venerable age of 100 on June 24.

The bureaucratic explanation? She no longer resided in Ireland.