It was a long, long, road which, in the end, culminated in a short walk that brought a town to a standstill.

A war mascot monkey who died 70 years ago in a suspected booze-fuelled army lockdown in neutral Ireland has been immortalised with a statue in Clonakilty.

THERE are different versions of what exactly was said in the exchange between the US Air Force man setting foot on the soil of an unknown land and the local farmer, but this is the one most people agree on.