Dublin’s Phoenix Park is the largest enclosed City-Park in Europe, perhaps even in the world. The opportunities for sightseeing, playing and watching sports and visiting places are vast. Nearly everybody has been to the Zoo, this year complete with a number of very thick-skinned babies (of the elephant and white rhino varieties), or the Papal Cross, where Pope John Paul II held the Dublin mass during his visit in 1979 (mainly, because that car park is THE best place to leave the car).

You meet a leprechaun. One of the statutory requirements of the situation is of course that he grant you three wishes before you let him go. Being an Irish leprechaun (are there any other sort) there is a condition that you take up permanent residence in the country in order to avail of the tax relief on your winnings.