28/05/2026
A Galway woman was delighted to receive her first commemorative coin from new President Catherine Connolly as she celebrated her 107th birthday last weekend.
Mary OโLeary (nee Quinn) celebrated her birthday at the Little Flower Nursing home in Labane, Ardrahan on May 23, surrounded by friends, family and staff.
Born in 1919 in Ballinlisheen, Tubber, Clare to John Quinn and Mary Kate McKague, Mrs OโLeary was an only child who never met her father, as he passed away before she was born.
She attended Boston National School and Gort Secondary School and worked from a young age on the family farm. She married her husband Joe O Leary in Tubber church in 1948 and they lived in Ballinlisheen until Joe passed away in July 1997.
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