CHELTENHAM Star, jointly owned by John Hennessy, Michael Hegarty and Tom Healy from Ballymacoda, Co. Cork, and trained by Denis O’Driscoll in Skibbereen, was a surprise winner of the Cork Cup at Blarney yesterday.

LAST week’s narrow defeat to Waterford may mean that promotion will prove a bridge too far for Cork City FORAS this year, but the FAI Ford Cup remains a potential path to glory for the club in its first year after coming back from the dead.

LOCH Bo Butch is the star turn at the two-day Cork Cup coursing meeting which starts at Blarney on St Stephen’s Day.

THREE of the four major stakes at the Cork Coursing Club’s Christmas meeting at Blarney, Co. Cork, yesterday resulted in upsets.

LEINSTER coach Turlough O’Siochain reckons the presence of the new Irish coach Dave Passmore at this weekend’s hockey interprovincials in Dublin will add considerable spice to the historic competition.

Renowned and revered as coursing’s top trainer, Michael Murphy’s success and secrets are the envy of his peers. He gave a rare interview to Diarmuid O’Flynn on the eve of the National Meeting at Clonmel

ULSTER were crowned Men’s Senior Hockey Interprovincial winners yesterday following a 3-3 draw with host province Munster, with the issue being decided in the last game of the weekend at Harlequin Park.

IT was a day of surprises at the Cork Cup meeting at Blarney yesterday with Rusheen Hannah, the property of Master Brendan and Miss Irene O’Callaghan of Macroom, and trained by Liam O’Callaghan, taking the Cork Cup in surprise fashion.