Number 8
IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©

ACROSS
1. Son, two bend over to see Kildare resting place of Wolfe Tone, and a Republican shrine. (10 )
5. In favour of eastern end of secluded Westmeath village with interesting antiquities of St. Fechin. (4)
7. Real dock unity. (anag.) The least hilly of the thirty two, noted for famousracecourses . (6,7)
10. I rig no turbulence, for a start. (6)
11. Sound vision of where the building is. (4)
12. Can it become a grotesque pose? (5)
15. Vegetable seen in crop each year. (3)
18. Prompt use of ecu, especially by potter? (3)
19. Hark, Pip, oxen. (anag.) Scene of the 1932 Eucharistic Congress attended by over a million people. (7,4)
20. Tear late notice ? (3)
21. "The fascination of what's difficult has dried the --- out of my veins." Yeats. (3)
22. By being included with the donkey, one sees the bottomless pit. (5)
25. "And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the ----, the golden apples of the sun." Yeats. (4)
26. To go back sounds like having to sow again. (6)
29. I.e. low noon reel. (anag.) Irish warrior who held Dublin under siege in 1646. (4,3,6)
31. Welsh emblem returns to Mayo resort with a 2 mile beach at the foot of the Minaun Cliffs. (4)
32. I enable all to come to picturesque Longford village where Cornwallis massacred prisoners in 1798. (10)

DOWN
1. Pub trot, Ron. (anag.) Donegal herring fishing centre. (10)
2. Hug one loosely, that's sufficient. (6)
3. Oh, two sounds enough for this gas. (6)
4. Cash on this for payment up front in Ballina illustration. (4)
5. Loud Christian date is latest craze. (3)
6. "Don't ---- ignore him!" Oscar Wilde's advice to Lord Alfred about his father. (4)
8. A holy woman, whichever way you look at it. (3)
9. A teetotaler gets the sack for assaults. (7)
11. Fight for small fragment. (5)
12. Ma's sister familiarly seen in Minaun typically. (5)
13. Sex at odds in the Lone Star state. (5)
14. Let Mom peer out at Tipperary town where the Gardai train. (10)
16. Disorderly pop rave, but sanction it. (7)
17. Or about man from Italy. (5)
23. "There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a -----." G.B. Shaw. (6)
24. Clay's confused about fifty seeing six headed monster on the Straits of Messina. (6)
26. Regret foreign street back in the European Union, right? (3)
27. Southern capital founded by St. Finbarr in the 6th century. (4)
28. Cat takes second class to the burial site. (4)
30. There's nothing to see in Dublin illusion. (3)

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