OUR attitude to eating oysters can be pretty similar to the treaty some of us sign — metaphorically at least — when steering our children through religious rites of passage. 

On her first ride on the unique track, Jane Mangan partnered he Peter Fahey-trained mare Saratoga Baby to an emphatic win in the Marquees Nationwide Amateur Handicap at sunny Laytown yesterday.

A GALWAY woman who claims to have been told to get out of Britain because she did not speak the Queen’s English suffered a “conspiracy of neglect” by her employers, an employment tribunal in England heard yesterday.

An Irish woman was told to leave Britain if she could not speak “the Queen’s English” by a colleague in an emergency services control room in Berkshire, a tribunal heard today.