Paradise lost?

For eight weeks Mauritius has been transfixed by events in the island’s Supreme Court as two men stood trial and were acquitted for the murder of Irish honeymooner Michaela McAreavey. David Young assesses the Mauritian perspective on proceedings and whether that holiday paradise image has been tarnished forever

THE first restaurant Trishi Sanassee’s uncle took him to when he visited Ireland served only Mauritian food.

He had fried noodles, a speciality of the Indian Ocean island, when all he really wanted to try was “a glass of stout and fish and chips”.