On October 11 last year, I lay on a couch in my sitting room watching the racing from Limerick with my wife, Gillian, on a rare Sunday off. We had had a Sunday roast, not a tradition in this house, and enjoyed the afternoon doing nothing.

The All-Ireland football final will capture most of the headlines but it is Aidan versus Jim versus Dermot, Ryan versus Kevin versus Colin, and St Mark’s Basilica versus Poetic Flare versus Tarnawa that excites me more

The question is, what will that normality be? For racing, it will mean the racecourses can reopen to total capacity with the odd caveat. Still, only time will tell if racegoers return en masse

It’s a quiet weekend on the racing front, and that’s not accidental because tomorrow afternoon should have seen Mayo face the winner of today’s All-Ireland semi-final in the 134th final. The best-laid plans and all of that.

Ruby Walsh thinks Love can prove the super sub and change the path she follows from here to November

I only managed to win the Galway Hurdle once, and Clondaw Warrior jumped terribly that afternoon. Perhaps that doesn’t matter

I was fortunate enough to win two Galway Plates but I was placed in a lot more than I won

I sat down last Monday night to watch The Dark Side of Horse Racing not knowing what to expect but knowing from the trailers I had seen on the BBC during the day that it was going to be an uncomfortable experience, writes Ruby Walsh

They say when it rains, it pours, but it feels more like a dark wet winter for Irish racing right now than a glorious summer.

What will win the Derby is the question those 1,000 people will all be asking and High Definition will be the choice of many