“I suppose I am glad he asked me to dance that night,” she says. ‘A different time’When Eileen is asked for the secret of a long and happy marriage she says, simply: “We never had too much, but we always had enough. We were never wealthy but we just cut our cloth to fit in our measure.”As for Valentine’s Day, Ned says it has never really mattered to the couple. We took life as it came and Valentine’s Day was of very little consequence. Romance is a different thing, romance is everything and you have to keep it alive.”

Source: The Irish Times February 14, 2018 01:30 UTC