Photos of Dan Keating with his visitors

Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta members visited Dan Keating in Co. Kerry after attending the Hungerstrike commemoration in Bundoran in August 06. Dan is patron of Sinn Féin Phoblachta and the oldest living volunteer that fought in the Black and Tan War (Irish war of independence)

Members of Sinn Fein Phoblachta regard themselves as the true heirs of the state's founding fathers. Mr Keating has never accepted a state pension because he regards the Dublin government as fundamentally illegitimate. He refused to accept the state's standard ?2,500 (£1,380) award to centenarians because he was "stunned" to hear the Irish President saying that her ambition was to walk through Dublin with the Queen.

He describes the current Irish peace process as "a joke", saying his views have "never changed" over the years', the only time you will ever have peace is when the people of the 32 counties elect one parliament."

Dan recently took a bus ride  to Cork city to see Ken Loach’s movie The Wind That Shakes The Barley.  According to Dan, the movie is very  close to an important period in Dan’s and Ireland’s ongoing fight for freedom.  Dan Keating will be 105 years of age in January 2007. There will be a birthday party in Tralee no doubt