“Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,700 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa,” wrote Ernest Hemingway. “Close to the western summit, there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was doing at that altitude.”

IN the week leading up the celebration of the 1916 Rising, the Taoiseach urges us to begin "a great national conversation" on what it means to be Irish 90 years later.