They knew. They just knew.

I RANG He Who Must Be Obeyed on the Sports desk Monday morning to sort out the menu for this week, to be greeted by a voice that sounded like it was coming from beyond the grave.

Johnny Miller claimed three-time major winner Billy Casper had the “greatest pair of hands God ever gave a human being”. Even at 76 that was evident last week when the former Masters winner showed he had lost little of his subtlety around Fota Island in Cork. He spoke to Tom Aherne.

THE Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday promises to answer some interesting questions.

IT marked the coming of age yesterday for Dublin 4’s most rural event: the Wren Boys Festival celebrated 21 years in the capital.

OOMPA LUMPA, owned in partnership by well known English punter Harry Finlay and Skibbereen’s Denis O'Driscoll, landed the Rakes Of Mallow all-aged stake when coming from behind to take the turn by two lengths from Run Like Baros at a very well run meeting at Ballymagooly yesterday.

Tom Aherne

IT just keeps getting better. Dublin 4’s Wren Boys’ Festival yesterday lived up to its high expectations.

ONE of the best ever line-ups goes to traps for the quarter -finals of the €35,000 to the winner Cashmans Irish Laurels at Curraheen Park tonight.

Hugh Farrelly

TWENTY years a-growing, Dublin 4’s very own Wren Boys’ Festival lived up to its reputation for fun and divilment at Sandymount Green yesterday.

IRELAND should declare an outright ban on smoking, according to one of the country’s leading heart surgeons.