On Monday’s letters page, Jerry O’Neill dismissed any possible as "such nonsense". Everyone is entitled to his opinion and let me express the long-held opinion of the humble folk of Bartlemy.

The National Army Museum in Britain has refused to budge on calls to repatriate Marengo to North Cork, where it is believed the horse hailed from 

Many people may be aware of claims that Napoleon’s famous white horse, Marengo, was bred in North Cork, but few would know that two of his doctors were Corkmen or that one of his generals at the Battle of Waterloo drowned off the Cork coast and is buried in Kinsale.