ANYONE who remembers the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip to Ireland in May 2011 will recall not just the grandeur of events in Dublin Castle an Áras an Uachtaráin but also their trip to the Rock of Cashel, the National Stud in Kildare, and the Coolmore Stud in Co Tipperary.

A conference on the disastrous effects which the Curragh Mutiny, or ‘incident’ as it became known, of 1914 had on British army discipline was held recently at the Curragh army camp, which is today the headquarters of the Irish Defence Forces.

THE rather horsey name for the south city estate, The Paddocks, on Cork’s Maryborough Hill is not just an affectation.

MUMBAI’S most famous landmark overlooking the Arabian Sea was yesterday littered with blood, shattered glass and mangled car parts.