Prince Charles Visit: ‘No longer victims of our difficult history’

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.

So said a smiling Prince Charles after he and Camilla were treated to specially commissioned piece of music performed by a spirited group of young traditional and classical musicians in Sligo’s Model arts centre.

It was an aside that could equally have applied to the irresistable instinct to keep in step with the upbeat tone thumping through much of the remarks by the royal visitor and his hosts as each vyed with the other to commit ever more firmly to a future of co-operation and kinship between Ireland and Britain.