As city living goes, it’s hard to find fault with heritage home Wellington Road’s No 4 Wellesley Terrace — so, put up your Dukes, and throw in your bids.

On Sunday, it will be 150 years since the first Clonmel Horse Show was held in 1865 and since then, it has survived economic turmoil, a civil war, two world wars, says historian Turtle Bunbury.

On the 200th anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo, Carlow’s close connections to the victorious Duke of Wellington are of note. 

A small village in mid-Cork is set to host the biggest model display of its kind in the world to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

A 20-year-old American who was badly gored during a bull-running festival is out of intensive care and improving, a Spanish hospital has said.

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.

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example"

Irish cities have plenty of famous sights, says Pól Ó Conghaile. He focuses on smaller, off-radar discoveries in his new book, Secret Dublin.

The ramparts of a medieval fort which offer unrivalled views over Cork City will be open to the public within weeks after the State handed the historic building back to the city yesterday.

James Blunt has got engaged to his long-term girlfriend Sofia Wellesley.

Are cereal boxes more nutritious than cornflakes?

THE fascinating archive of businessman Richard Dowden, who was the mayor of Cork in 1845, has finally been catalogued after a painstaking 12-month project by staff at the Cork City and County Archives.

Sixteen people were in police custody after hundreds of demonstrators gathered at a London landmark to protest against Margaret Thatcher’s legacy and mark her death with a party.

A remote community on a rugged Irish headland have come together to commemorate an almost forgotten naval disaster on their shores more than two centuries ago.

Showers swept through the Stradbally estate in Co Laois as the early arrivals at Electric Picnic began pitching their tents yesterday morning.

A GENERAL or a chairman? The number of empty bainisteoir bibs in the inter-county hurling world is unusually high at the moment – at the time of writing Antrim, Galway, Laois, Clare, Wexford, Cork, Waterford and Limerick have changed or are about to change. There are merry-go-rounds, and then there are merry-go-rounds.

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

She said the Duke of Wellington groaned over her for hours, which is surprising, given his verbal brevity in all other aspects of his life.

THE sumptuous Merrion Hotel has seen its fair share of history – the Duke of Wellington was born there and regular patron Robbie Williams’ career was last seen alive there – now it can claim to be the launching pad for George Lee: Political Superstar.

ONE spends much of any season these days complaining about the grim plastic fraud of the modern game but every now and then you get an afternoon like last Saturday to keep you hooked nonetheless. Ewood Park was everything you want the football experience to be about: a fittingly throbbing start to what could be the best Red week of the century.

HISTORY, so it is said, is defined by the songs of the victors. And that is one reason why, as we approach the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme next Saturday, more attention is given to a republican hymn in the shape of a film produced by an Englishman about the War of Independence than to a conflict in which immeasurably more Irishmen fought and died.

DO-ER Upper or diamond in the rough, call it what you will, 9 Wellington Square needs, and may repay, investment of time and money.

Although a sad occasion, the Queen Mother’s funeral will be a spectacle of pomp and ceremony.