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SCREEN LEGEND Maureen O’Hara yesterday celebrated her 90th birthday with family and friends in Co Cork.

Despite the passage of time, she still looks the Hollywood star with the facial expressions, eyes and a voice that first impressed the actor Charles Laughton who first “discovered” her as a feisty 19-year-old with captivating good looks.