Irish Examiner view: Generational challenge to put on a happy face

What annoys Helen Mirren the most are patronising comments made by younger people when she holds hands with her husband in public. It is, the hardest part of turning 80

Helen Mirren stars in 'Thursday Murder Club', about a group of retirement home residents  on the track of a killer. Picture: Giles Keyte/Netflix

You might think that it is a foolhardy person who would make a condescending remark to the formidable actress Helen Mirren.

She might be in DCI Jane Tennison mode, from the television show Prime Suspect (“just call me guv’nor”), or be the streetwise Victoria, girlfriend of the mobster Harold Shand, in the film The Long Good Friday.