SOME of us like words the way others like a perfectly chilled glass of Prosecco — on tap at Bastion, a novelty even in foodie heaven Kinsale. 

IN 10 days’ time, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo will be marked. That great and brutal event was one of modern Europe’s defining moments and is still regarded in some countries’ military histories as one of the continent’s first concerted responses to tyranny.

Forget hyper-realistic, graphic war games. Forget high-spec computers.

‘Waterloo’ meticulously recalls the events of four days in June 200 years ago when 200,000 men were engaged in a struggle which laid the foundations of contemporary Europe, writes Allan Prosser.

VISITORS to modern day Waterloo may struggle to follow the topography of one of the most important military encounters in European history. In particular, an enormous earthwork, the Lion’s Mound, erected 1820, has significantly altered the perspective, writes Allan Prosser.

FIANNA FÁIL met their long-deserved Waterloo in February but even that denouement may not have prepared some of the party’s neanderthal hardcore for the idea that they would be wasting time and very scarce resources by nominating a candidate to contest October’s presidential election.

A German penguin named Napoleon thinks a pair of black and white Wellington boot is its mate.

WE have just had the most spectacular, groundbreaking election in modern Irish history.

Liberator: The life and death of Daniel O’Connell 1830-1847

AS a cadre of Leinster House foot soldiers is unnerved by withering opinion polls and an election looming on an not-so-distant horizon, Brian Cowen and Enda Kenny’s leaderships are under fire.

BELIEVE it or not, the British government is – to this day – paying a 2% annuity on so-called consol bonds which it used to finance its campaigns in the Napoleonic Wars from 1803-1815.

Richard Collins reports on the third Sack of Rome by noble winged knights.

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy, especially while in Dublin, should respect the decision of the Irish people and not try to impose the Lisbon Treaty by any circuitous route.

Sustainability as a tourist attraction requires that a building must be ancient and hold dead people (the pyramids), bendy (the Tower of Pisa) or linked with imprisonment, torture and execution (the Tower of London).

A French toxicologist says new scientific evidence supports the theory that Napoleon Bonaparte was poisoned with arsenic.

FORMER Fine Gael T.D, Liam Burke and his co-owner, Mossie Barry, received a tremendous welcome when the arrived home in Cork on the Manchester flight yesterday afternoon with the Waterloo Cup, following their success in the prestigious coursing event at Altcar the previous day with their bitch Henrietta.

WITH the inevitable ban on live hunting with hounds in the UK, the baton of social reform will then be handed to Ireland to join its more forward-thinking neighbours and remove hunt-controlled violence from the Irish countryside.