Jubilant Nolan enjoys a most Noble victory

IT was either France’s King Louis XV or his mistress — no-one seems quite sure which — who once warned: ‘Apres moi, le deluge’.

Whoever said it, they were predicting revolution.

Yesterday’s English uprising was no storming of the Bastille but five straight home wins was still ruthlessly effective in wresting back Prestbury Park for queen and country after Paul Nolan’s Noble Prince claimed the opener for Ireland.