At 108, Sr. Colette Hickey lived through extraordinary change, but those who knew her remembered something far greater than her impressive age.
When someone reaches the age of 108, it is tempting to focus on the number. Yet Ireland’s oldest woman leaves behind a rather different measure of a life.
Ireland’s oldest woman, who died this week at the age of 108, as reported in The Irish Times, had already lived through the First World War, the Spanish flu pandemic, the birth of television, the internet, and COVID-19. She had watched Ireland change beyond recognition. But
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