Regal splendour for horse show

IT could have been a dress rehearsal for the visit to Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, as four splendid black horses pulled the elegant Lord Mayor’s Coach through the streets of Dublin.

The occasion was the official opening of the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show — one of just two occasions in which the coach is used — the other is St Patrick’s Day.

Deputy Lord Mayor Edie Wynne travelled in regal splendour in the coach from the Mansion House to the RDS with Garda motor cycle outriders as an escort.