SIVOTA, successful on the flat when trained in England by Tom Tate, can land the nap in the Visit www.punchestown.com Maiden Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

DRUMCONVIS is hard to oppose in the Family Fun At Easter Novice Handicap Hurdle at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

Eddie Harty plans to give Siege Of Ennis a second outing over hurdles before Cheltenham.

Sizing Europe soared to the head of the betting for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle as he left dual winner of the blue riband Hardy Eustace trailing in his wake at Leopardstown.

CLARE will feature as the central theme of next month’s Milwaukee Irish Fest in Wisconsin, USA.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Alarazi gets the vote to take the Group Three 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon.

THERE is no evidence that General Colin Powell ever danced the Siege of Ennis while growing up in the Irish stronghold of the Bronx in New York.

WHEN Eamon de Valera aspired to a nation dancing at the crossroads, it’s not quite clear if he meant it to take place at the junction of Stephen’s Green and Kildare Street.