A bodybuilding pensioner has spoken about how she once tackled a car thief before handing them over to the police.
Granted, that's not the usual pastime you would associate with your regular OAP, but then again, Dubliner Iris Davis is no ordinary woman.
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After a brief stay in London, she left to start a new life in the United States 50 years ago, and has gone on to become a world record holder and bodybuilding champion.
But as well as her sporting prowess, the impressive Iris, 75, also has a sideline in crime fighting and once bravely tackled a thief to the ground after he crashed a stolen car in front of her office.
Iris, who is now a personal trainer, describes the day she surprised many people, least of all herself, when she took down robbers during a car chase.
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She said: "I was living and working in Florida at the age of sixty-five and I happened to watch a police chase that was going on by my office, so I came down to the street to see what was going on.
"I noticed there was a car going north in the southbound lane with about ten police cars following them.
"As soon as they reached where I was standing, they crashed into an oncoming car and four of the thieves got out and ran away.
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"When one of them tried to pass me by, I had to make a decision within a split second whether I should let them run past me or whether I should try and hold him for the police.
"I remember thinking I must not let him get away and I reached out and stopped him in his tracks and the police were there about five seconds later."
Iris moved to America when she was in her early twenties. A mum to two young children at the time she had to care for them herself after her husband died in a tragic accident.
After spiralling into a dark depression she looked for something to help her cope, and began exercising, just walking at first but eventually she found the courage to enter the male-dominated world of the gym, for the first time.
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And she hasn't looked back.
Irish entered her first bodybuilding show at the age of 50 and came second, which spurred her on to continue her journey. Since then she has had a glittering career, winning the Florida State Championship at the age of 62 and again when she was 63-years-old.
And on her 74th birthday, she held a world record for doing 21 pull-ups in a row. I can barely do one.
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She said: "It's certainly changed my life. I entered my first bodybuilding show at age fifty in London and I came in second place - it was a great thrill for me just to complete it.
"Thirty years before, I wasn't even allowed to go into the gym and here I was up on stage showing off my work and most of the people in the show were thirty years younger than me.
"In every show I've ever entered, I have always been the eldest lady in the show and ninety percent of the time I took home first place."
What a woman.
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