#generations

#generations

He says that for boomers, who lived through an economic boom, accumulating wealth was easy-or at least easier than it has ever been since. Baby boomers currently hold more than $85 trillion in assets, making them the richest generation by far. Therefore, they earn the title "all about the money." Millennials, meanwhile, were handed a map and told the exact steps to follow to find the financial success their parents enjoyed.

'Old age,' Bette Davis once said, 'is not for wimps.' There's nothing wimpy about the formidable team of Terry Prone (77) and Fergus Finlay (75). The communications doyenne and the former Barnados CEO are about to launch Grey Matters, a new podcast which is billed as 'a long overdue conversation about ageing'.

The Lions is an idea that gets passed on from one generation to the next, follow it back long enough and you'll end up at two men who were born and bred in this very club, Willie John McBride and Syd Millar, who did as much as anyone to make the team into what they are today.