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- Sep 2, 2026
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Fionnuala Ward: Now that Iâm in my 60s, some people are only short of patting me on the head (opens the original)
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Growing old is a privilege but itâs a privilege that comes with a cost. I will be 62 later this year but like everyone from probably their mid-40s onwards, itâs a number that makes no rational sense to me. After all, I am the same person I was when I was 23 and 32 and 41. Other people are definitely ageing, but not me. Until I unexpectedly spot my reflection in a shop window, that is, or have to scroll down, down, down to find the year of my birth when filling out an official sort of form. I
âIâm officially retiring from my primary school - and Iâve had a good runâ (opens the original)
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I officially retire from my primary school today. No more cúntus miosúils. No more staff meetings. No more standing in the yard first thing in the morning, welcoming the children in. That was probably the best part of the day. The chats, the banter. All those comments about how brilliant that homemade Viking warship really was, oars all primed to go. And it really was! Or those queries about what it was they were going to make with the three bags of cereal boxes they were somehow managing to b
Inside track: Fionnuala Ward on being a spectator at the European Athletics Championships (opens the original)
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I was at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham just for the first two days. Me, my cousin and a sizeable proportion of the Irish population. Irish supporters had bought 12 per cent of all tickets sold. I know this because I read it in The Irish Times, as had most Irish people there, and it ended up being quoted at every juncture, turning us all into statisticians on the spot. In reality, of course, it meant that every time an Irish person was introduced before an event, the place we
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