Mrs Nellie Jude, originally Garrihy from Ennistymon, celebrating her 106th birthday. Photograph by John Kelly
Inspirational Ennistymon lady celebrates her 106th birthday
January 25, 2021
th birthday on Friday, January 29.
Nellie Jude formerly lived in Newquay on The Flaggy Shore, where she is much loved by her neighbours. She moved back to North Clare after a long career in England where she trained as a nurse and where she and her husband, Ernest Arthur Jude, ran a number of very popular pubs in London and Essex.
Christened Helen Garrihy in January 1915, she is the daughter of Michael and Helen Garrihy (née Vaughan). Nellie had 12 siblings and, at the age of 19, went to train as a nurse in England at The Royal Chest Hospital. She married Ernest Arthur Jude from Cambridgeshire and had two children, Phil and the late Jenny.