When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

THERE will be a sense of bringing it all back home at the Connemara Pony Show in Clifden, Co Galway, on Thursday.

IT’S D-Day for Vodafone Epsom Derby hero Kris Kin when he will need to be supplemented if he is to run in the Irish equivalent next Sunday.