A baseball game which took place in Cork last night recreated a famous one held exactly 100 years ago by the US Navy who had arrived in the region as the vanguard for their country’s entry into the First World War.

Two mechanics cheated death yesterday after a fire broke out in a garage as they worked.

“As one saw her steaming slowly, a majestic monster floating it seemed irresistibly into the harbour, a strange sense of might and power pervaded the scene. She embodies the latest triumphs in mercantile engineering...”