“Is this Ireland?” the woman asked on her way into the polling station, because that dazzling sunshine was just plain out-of-character for this rainy little isle.

A Christmas card designed by an 11-year-old from Cork may reach the Taoiseach’s mantelpiece — but not Donald Trump’s.

ABOUT 10,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Cork tomorrow in a protest calling for the Government to reverse cuts to education announced in last month’s budget.