Thousands of people today transformed Dublin City Centre into a massive carnival for the end of the annual Gay Pride Festival.

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins once recalled.

Two black men were charged with killing a white police officer who was fatally wounded as he rode in an armoured car during a 10-day race riot in York, Pennsylvania, in 1969.