Money buys time: CSO figures

As we reach peak wedding season, at least for traditional, bride-in-white church weddings, those trying to cope with the self-inflicted stress of these often overly grand productions can take some comfort in the figures published by the Central Statistics Office yesterday.

The findings show that, despite a century of mother-in-law jokes, being married usually means living longer than those who have gone through a divorce or separation. This is hardly rocket science, as anyone who has survived the travails of a divorce or separation will confirm.