I’M just back after a short break from the Irish winter which took me to Morocco.

PHILLIP O’Sullivan Beare wrote a book about Ireland while he was exiled in Spain following the Battle of Kinsale.

LAST week I was in England, visiting friends in a rural part of Devon.

My youngest son, currently teaching in Spain, had the good fortune to be invited to a lammergeyer-watching weekend in the Pyrenees.

LAST week I was in England, visiting friends in a rural part of Devon.