ELDERLY women with cameras at the ready jostled for position, giddy school girls stood on bins and school-bags, toddlers on shoulders had a bird’s eye view — and some well-seasoned voyeurs had even thought to bring step ladders or stools. Everyone wanted to see the Queen.

AN overjoyed Batt O’Keeffe walked his daughter Hilda down the aisle over the weekend as she married her fiance, Damien Smyth, in a church ceremony in Ballincollig, Co Cork.