Ireland s oldest man Michael O Connor dies aged 108 buzz.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from buzz.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“107 years ago I kicked myself into this world,” Michael told the Killarney Advertiser.
“I was born in Glencar to Daniel and Bridie, I travelled the world for five years, three in the last war. I then changed to aviation in the early ’40s and stayed in aviation for the rest of my life based in Ballygreen between Shannon and Ennis.”
Michael who came to Killarney 40 years ago in 1980 with his wife Joan, who died in 2008, told how he “built a holiday home up the side of a mountain a few years before I retired. Then, when I retired, I sold the house in Limerick and have been here ever since. There’s no nicer place in the world – and I’ve been around most of it.”