Olivia Breen

Olivia Breen (neé Dier; 3 October 1901 – 18 September 2011) was a Irish centenarian. She is the oldest Irish person to have not reached the age of 110.

Biography
She was born on 3 October 1901 in Clonroche, County Wexford into an Anglo Irish Protestant family. Her parents were Richard Dier and Eliza Watchorn. Her father James was born in 1857 and farmed a 200 acre farm in the village of Clonroche. He was also a Justice of the Peace.

She had four brothers and one sister. Her brother John qualified as a doctor in the College of Surgeons, Dublin and in Edinburgh Univesity. Another brother Richard died in the Battle of the Somme.

In 1932, she was married to Patrick Breen, and they had three sons and one daughter. Her husband died in 1964.

She became the oldest person in Ireland on 12 January 2009, then aged 107, following the death of 107-year-old Margaret Conway.

Helvi Karki passed away on 18 September 2011 in Care Choice Monenotte, County Cork, Ireland, at the age of 109 years, 350 days. She was succeeded as Ireland's oldest person by then-108-year-old Statia Kealy.