Fran Rooney, who has died aged 67, epitomised the dotcom bubble of the 1990s for many people when his company, Baltimore, rose to dizzying heights before sinking to oblivion. He then had a second career as the first chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).
An extensive report on the recent archaeological and historical investigation into Arklow (Ormonde) Castle is now accessible online via the County Wicklow Heritage website.
When Annabel, then fifteen, now aged eighteen, was asked to deliver a presentation on how schooling had changed in the last 50 years, her answer was that it had not. To illustrate this thesis, she started with a photo of a classroom in the 1940 s and one of her school today.