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• A colour article describing the first day of the Queen's state visit to Ireland referred, among other things, to the security measures in evidence, and closed with the observation that ordinary people in crowds would have no opportunity to speak with the Queen. "Instead," the piece went on, "some questions submitted by children will be projected on screens at an event organised by the British embassy at Dublin's convention centre on Thursday night [19 May]. 'What colour is your bicycle?' says one. 'Do you have a pink hairbrush?' says another. 'Do you kill people?' asks a third." The article was entirely mistaken about the second two quotes, about which the writer of the piece was misinformed: the projections – on the rear exterior of the convention centre where the Queen was to attend a concert indoors – included neither a question about a hairbrush nor about killing. Instead, other questions asked "What's your favourite princess dress?" and "Are there skeletons in the dungeon?" And, to clarify, the children's project, though timed to coincide with the concert, was mounted independently and not under British embassy auspices. The children involved were aged three to 11, not three to seven as reported (A royal visit like 1,000 others. But this is Ireland, there's history here, 18 May, page 6 turn from page 1).
• The lighting of the Olympic torch was said, in a story, to take place on Mount Olympus. As a reader notes, "It is lit at Olympia in the Peloponnese where the ancient Olympic Games took place" (Coe in protest plea as route of UK torch relay is unveiled, 19 May, page 15).
