A series of largely unseen photographs visualise the impact football had on the morale of troops from Allied forces during the First World War.

Writer William Congreve, who died in 1729, warned us that “heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned”.

A table centrepiece at £343,250, a soup bowl at £159,000 and a mirror at £313,250 brought the tally for contents at Mt Congreve to £3.4m (€4.25m) at Christie’s in London.

A WATERFORD-based centenarian once honoured for creating “the greatest garden in the world” has died during his annual visit to the Chelsea Flower Show.