If Irish walkers keep coming to La Gomera in the numbers that arrived with the Bishopstown Hillwalking Club this week, they’ll wear down the paths and stone-made steps climbing the mountains out of the fecund valleys, routes laid down hundreds of years ago.

A ROMANIAN toddler found abandoned behind a Cornetto ice-cream freezer at a Dublin newsagents on Saturday, was released back into her parents’ care yesterday after an assessment of the case by social workers.