{"id":611948,"date":"2026-09-02T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611948\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T05:56:09","slug":"106-year-old-ukrainian-becomes-oldest-man-living-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611948\/","title":{"rendered":"106-year-old Ukrainian becomes oldest man living in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian national Petro Motornyi, 106, has become the oldest man living in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukrinform, the Ukrainian Action in Ireland organization reported this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/19jAwcPFbf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Motornyi was born in the Cherkasy region on November 5, 1919. He spent most of his life in Mykolaiv, where he moved after finishing school. There, he began a career at a shipbuilding plant that lasted more than 50 years, working his way up from welder to shop manager.<\/p>\n<p>Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-society\/4156415-united24-has-raised-nearly-4b-from-donors-in-145-countries-since-2022-zelensky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United24 has raised nearly $4B from donors in 145 countries since 2022 \u2013 Zelensky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian will turn 107 on November 5.<\/p>\n<p>The organization noted that despite his advanced age, Motornyi can recite passages from Ivan Kotliarevsky&#8217;s Eneida from memory.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, at the age of 104, he received an international passport for the first time in his life. He then traveled to Ireland, where his family was waiting for him.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: mkrada.gov.ua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian national Petro Motornyi, 106, has become the oldest man living in Ireland. According to Ukrinform, the Ukrainian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-611948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}