IN the 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s The Third Man, Harry Lime points out that 500 years of peace, brotherly love and democracy in Switzerland had produced nothing more exciting than the cuckoo clock.

The number of lip collections launching from major beauty brands over August leaves you spoilt for choice, writes Rachel Marie Walsh.

Damian Foxall is Ireland’s finest ocean racing sailor. He tells Dan Buckley about the thrills of his trips around the world.