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Ireland’s oldest woman has marked her 109th birthday by sharing two tips on how to enjoy a long life: don’t waste time, and live it to the fullest. Máirín Hughes follows her own advice by bird-watching, reading newspapers and novels, doing crosswords, listening to music, playing Scrabble -- and enjoying the fuss every time she reaches another birthday. “I just like living,” she said. She celebrated her latest milestone with friends by boarding a vintage bus for a tour of Dublin’s Phoenix Park, with afternoon tea, before returning to her nursing home. Hughes was born on May 22, 1914, two months before the outbreak of the first world war and remembers her mother taking care of people during the 1918 flu pandemic.
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