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Sat 11 Nov 2009Long life attributed to avoiding marriage and medicine
WHEN KATHLEEN Murray was born, King Edward had succeeded the late Victoria to the British throne and Theodore Roosevelt had become the first US president to ride in a car. Police had beaten up suffragettes campaigning for the right to vote in Brussels, and California had recorded the first person to fly a powered aircraft.
It’s hard to fit 107 candles on a cake, but relatives and staff at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon town did their best yesterday to mark Ms Murray’s birthday. A native of Crannagh, Summerhill, near Athlone, Co Westmeath, she is the fourth- oldest person in the State on the records of Áras an Uachtaráin.
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