A resilient Irish grandmother who was born before the 1916 Rising and had memories of the Black and Tans as a young child, has died aged 105.
Margaret Coleman, originally from Fairymount in County Roscommon, but who lived in Athlone after returning from the UK, passed away peacefully on Monday.
Born in April 1916, just three weeks before the 1916 Rising, the centenarian was one of Ireland’s oldest surviving women.
