A grandmother with a taste for Guinness has celebrated reaching her 100th birthday. Mary ‘Paddy’ Tipping marked the day surrounded by family and friends at a garden party hosted by the Fitzwarren House care home. She enjoyed receiving presents, balloons, a card from the Queen and not one but two birthday cakes - one of them shaped like a pint of Guinness, which is something she credits with helping her live such a long and happy life. Mary said: “Working for so long kept me active and the daily Guinness never did me any harm.” She still enjoys her daily bottle of the black stuff.
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“The worst class ever”: that’s how Nathan Pusey, Harvard’s then-president, described my undergraduate cohort of 1971.
With a half century’s leisure to contemplate that bitter judgment, I’ve concluded that he was just about right. Of course, one can’t be sure, as no one can know all of Harvard’s 385 graduating classes. I can assert, however, that ours was not just feckless in college what Mr. Pusey observed and condemned but in the 50 years since, when it actively joined in the degradation of American higher education and culture.
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NOEL Heading, husband, father, grandfather, shop steward, teacher and economist, was born in north Belfast in the 1930s at a time of outdoor relief protests and sectarian violence.
He experienced and contributed to many parts of the city s political and cultural life that do not normally receive the attention they deserve.
On leaving school he started an engineering apprenticeship and became active in the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, participating in a Belfast strike of apprentices in the late 1940s.
This experience developed his values of anti-sectarianism as he became a strong advocate for social justice and equality.
Noel joined the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association when it was formed and handed out leaflets in the late 1960s supporting the aims of better housing, jobs and one man, one vote.
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Born in Liverpool, England, on June 1, 1949, John joined the Merchant Navy in 1966. Arriving in Fremantle in 1969, he jumped ship and began a new life in Australia.
The following year, he joined the New South Wales branch of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union. His father, too, had been a Liverpool docker and John grew up in an atmosphere of working-class militancy and socialism.
He became the convener of shop stewards at the Garden Island Dockyards and was president of the NSW branch during the 11-week Garden Island strike when the union successfully defended its control of the roster system from the employers.