Violet Houlihan and her grandaughter Karinah

HAPPY 101st birthday to Violet Houlihan who resides in Kilrush.

The above photo captures a momentous occasion of Volet Houlihan’s 101st birthday celebration on April 23 with her grandaughter, 26-year-old Karinah lek Houlihan from Ennis.

Violet is a native of Seafield, Quilty where the family had a pub before moving to Vandeleur Street in Kilrush, where they opened a shop.

She loves music so in the past joined the choral society, operatic society, church choir band and still today tells the stories of the I.C.A and the civil defense trips around
the country.

According to her family, she’s still singing to her favorite songs today.

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