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Maggie Timmins has had many birthdays, but few have been as special as the number 103.
That’s because Cavan’s wife was able to see her husband John for the first time in months, and she said it was the best birthday present she could ask for.
Maggie celebrated her birthday Thursday with a small number of family members at a socially estranged outdoor party at Oak View Nursing Home in Belturbet, Co Cavan, where she is a resident.
Maggie and her husband John have not seen each other since the second shutdown began earlier this year due to Covid-19 restrictions on nursing homes.
This made yesterday’s meeting very special.
While she regretted not being able to kiss her husband John due to the “muzzle” he was wearing, referring to the face mask, Maggie said she was “delighted that we could at least hold hands.”
“If we survive one more year, we will be married 70 years,” Maggie said, adding that she got “a great husband.”
Maggie noted that John hadn’t felt well since he recently had a stroke and said she hopes he gets a coronavirus vaccine before she does.
“I hadn’t seen him in a good few months.
“This virus has ruined everything, but I had a wonderful day.
“I loved watching it,” Maggie said.
He thanked the nursing home workers for facilitating his birthday party and said he received “all kinds of everything” at his birthday celebrations.
“I had my daughter Mary there and my husband, and some grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
I got cards and decorations and all that, ”Maggie said gratefully.
This is the second pandemic Maggie has faced, but she admits that she does not remember the Spanish flu since she was “only a year or two.
However, there is very little else that Maggie does not remember.
A member of the nursing home staff describes her as incredibly sharp, which she herself confirmed.
“People from the city often called me here to see me and ask about their own family to see what I remembered about them and could tell them everything,” he said.
He said a cousin of hers told him “I didn’t have a brain, but a computer,” Maggie laughed.
Killylea’s wife said she didn’t see Cavan in the semi-final, but that she generally follows footballers from Cavan and Monaghan.
She “doesn’t have time to pitch.”
The centennial said she hoped to go out with her family for Christmas, but the worsening Covid-19 situation ended any chance of that.
“It could be my last Christmas, I won’t live forever, you know,” he joked.
Maggie said the secret to a long life is “hard work, keeping going all the time, a good family and the hope of not getting into too much trouble.”
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