NEMONE Routh is the Aga Khan’s racing office manager, based at Aiglemont Training Centre in France. On Wednesday night she was in Dundalk along with her brother Kieran and sister Heidi attending the premiere of the movie An Engineer Imagines – the story of their father Peter Rice.

Born in Dundalk, Peter is better known around the world than he is in his native land. At the age of just 25, this graduate of Newbridge College and Queen’s University Belfast’s first job was working on the roof of a building that has become an iconic feature worldwide, the Sydney Opera House. You might think that it could not get better than that, but Peter’s career was only starting its upward trajectory when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour and died at 57.