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Wed 12 Dec 2008Money rejected as centenarian thought she was only 93
PRESIDENT'S GIFT:The "Centenarian's Bounty", paid by the president to mark 100th birthdays was £50 (€ 63.50) at that time. However, one letter from a Department of Social Welfare official explains that the gift was rejected by a Limerick family.
A social welfare officer visited the woman who was approaching her 100th birthday in August 1978 to tell her that she would receive the president's gift but he was met with stunned surprise from her family. He was told that she could not remember her date of birth "but believed that she was 93-years-old".
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