At 7.25am the alarm went off, before 7.30 he was out in the kennel, checking on Glanmore Susan; she was fine, even better than fine – “Hopping off the ground!”

Hand-written drafts of a poem by Seamus Heaney tonight fetched €27,000 to help a small Irish village develop an arts and heritage centre.

DID the Riders to the Sea leave from the stables at Glanmore?