* The IGB undertook to build its new flagship stadium in Limerick on the back of a gentleman’s agreement.

The two principal internal investigators at the Irish Greyhound Board have taken extended work-related sick leave as the company delays the publication of their recent report into a race-fixing scam.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Magical Dream looks good in the listed Salsabil Stakes, feature of today’s rescheduled meeting in Navan.

Gardaí in Dundalk are investigating a possible stabbing incident in which a man has been seriously injured.

Horse Racing Ireland has announced the creation of two new Listed races in 2013, although the Loughbrown Stakes at the Curragh will no longer feature in the programme.

Always a force at the track, Michael Halford completed a double with favourites Rummaging and Won Diamond in Dundalk last night.

True Verdict’s undoubted class should see her overcome a three-month absence and a high draw in the two-year-old fillies maiden in Dundalk tonight.

Saturday night’s second-round action in the Connolly’s Red Mills Irish Laurels saw racing at Curraheen Park brought to a whole new level when Liam Dowling’s Ballymac Vic became the first greyhound to break the 28-second barrier in competitive action at the venue.

Robert Lehane’s 80th-minute header captured the Enda McGuill Cup for Cork City U19s as they beat Dundalk in a cracking final at Oriel Park.

THE progressive Roe Deer, a son of the great Vinnie Roe, gets the nap in the Dundalk Stadium On Facebook Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 32-year-old man in relation to a fatal shooting in Dundalk, County Louth yesterday.

SLADE POWER is the nap choice to defy an absence of 194 days in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

The Smithwick Tribunal into suspected Garda-IRA collusion in the murder of two senior RUC officers will not be curtailed, the North's First Minister Peter Robinson has said.

SO now we know. Heading to Doncaster on Saturday, St Nicholas Abbey was no more than a promising colt.

DUNDALK: 1.55 Moonreach, 2.25 Jamaayel, 3.00 Keraloun

CASHMANS Bookmakers will again be sponsoring the Laurels at Curraheen Park this year.

Gardaí investigating the shooting of a man in Dundalk are considering the possibility that the attack may have been a case of mistaken identity.

Former Taoiseach John Bruton today denied trying to silence one of his TDs who led a campaign to help a Donegal family expose garda corruption.

Merging cross-border controls on child safety was today discussed at the first formal gathering of protection agencies from the Republic and Northern Ireland.

A 38-year-old man is due to appear in court later today in connection with the murder of a man in the Dundalk.

NOVATION will launch its first Enterprise Day at Dundalk Institute of Technology today.

NOVATION will launch its first Enterprise Day at Dundalk Institute of Technology today.

Gardaí have released the two men arrested earlier this week in connection with the murder of Dundalk woman Irene White.

ONE of the country’s busiest refuges for battered women now has “little option” but to send clients across the Border into the North for treatment due to pressure on services.

SOMETIMES the media is accused of promoting copycat behaviour by highlighting specific crimes. However, the two young girls who were the object of an apparent abduction attempt in Dundalk this week stressed they were acutely conscious of the dangers as a result of the publicity surrounding the apparent abduction of two girls in England.