Ruby Druce, who is believed to be Ireland’s oldest person, is 109 today.
A native of Castlefinn, Co Donegal, Mrs Druce has lived through two world wars and two global pandemics.
She has never smoked or drank, apart from a drop of poitín when she caught the Spanish flu in 1918.
Mrs Druce attributes her long life to walking, hard work and a daily cod liver oil capsule.
