BIG TIME road racing returns to Blarney this weekend when the Blarney Cycling Club Festival of Cycling gets under way tomorrow night with the Osborne Butchers Criterium, followed by the Donal Crowley Memorial and Kay Stratton Memorial races on Sunday.

In-form trainer Keith Reveley bagged a one-two with Brave Rebellion and Truckers Lady in the feature John Smith’s No Nonsense Novices’ Chase at Kelso.

THE rise in lamb prices faded almost as quickly as it arrived, leaving sheep-farmers pinching themselves and wondering if the short-lived boost was only a dream.

The murder of a top loyalist paramilitary was as barbaric as anything inflicted by the notorious Shankill Butchers gang 30 years ago, a Belfast inquest heard today.

TWO people were recovering from injuries yesterday following an explosion in a butcher’s shop.

The Government was today accused of holding a ‘‘seven-hour terrorism fest’’ with its state burial of 10 IRA men executed by the British authorities more than 80 years ago.