TTHE annual First Cut! Youth Film Festival in Youghal celebrates the work of Irish filmmakers aged 12-24, writes Ellie O’Bryne

Former NY Met Dwight Gooden has denied his former baseball compadre Darryl Strawberry’s accusation that he is “a complete junkie-addict ,” claiming his former Met team-mate is taking it personally that Gooden couldn’t make a scheduled public appearance with Strawberry last week.

Strawberrydaiquiri is bang on target for the Windsor Forest Stakes at Royal Ascot next week.

VERY few horses come to the Galway Festival as hotly fancied as Oslot was for yesterday’s Plate and then deliver in the manner Paul Nicholls’ charge did.

Golden Bay landed the feature Yorkshire Bank Mares’ Only Handicap Hurdle race at Cheltenham to give trainer Suzy Smith her first taste of success at Prestbury Park.

Pop singer Michael Jackson has found a friend in another celebrity who has had his own brushes with the law – former baseball star Darryl Strawberry.

Fallen baseball star Darryl Strawberry spent four days on the run smoking crack cocaine with a woman from his Alcoholics Anonymous group, a probation report reveals .