WELL, IT’S FINALLY underway – after years of wondering whether it would ever happen, and months of anxious waiting after the visit was confirmed, Her Majesty the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, are spending their first night in Ireland.
The couple are overnighting in Farmleigh this evening having spent the day visiting the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square and then Trinity College – amid heavy security presence following a series of bomb scares and a clutch of protests.
Here is our selection of snaps from the day.