Mary G Johnson, 66: ‘I’ve stopped dyeing my hair and being coy about my age’

Toby Joyce, 62: ‘You can be a moral person and live an upright life without religious belief’

Cathal Cullen, 65: ‘Two guards drove in the gate to tell us our son, Cormac, was dead’

Fred Crowe, 64: ‘I was one of the first people in Ireland with an email address’

The Generations series, charting the experience of Irish people through the decades, by Rosita Boland, reaches over 60-year-olds in Saturday's Irish Times. Here we preview the voices from that decade with Fred Crowe from Clontarf

Una Hughes, 60: ‘Most of my friends are single or divorced. We’re very happy’