From the Easter Rising in Dublin to the slaughter and carnage of the Battle of the Somme, 1916 was a fateful year in the minds and lives of Irish country house owners.

In the early 1960s, a member of my family touched a star. 

AS A former Zimbabwean, I would like to point out to Trocaire that noble as their motives are in raising funds to get food to starving Zimbabweans, the intended recipients will never receive the food unless the operation is dealt with shrewdly.