Davy Russell has revealed that he is considering changing the tactics that proved so successful on board Lord Windermere in last year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup, when the Jim Culloty-trained gelding takes his place in the Hennessy Gold Cup on Sunday.

LOUTH GAA star Brian Donnelly has been suspended from soccer for four weeks after a committee found him guilty of playing a league match under the name of fellow Wee County GAA player Richard Brennan.

A LOUTH GAA star could be hit with a lengthy ban from soccer, after lining out in a junior soccer league game under the name of a colleague from the county Gaelic team.

MORE than €6m was given out in grants by the North/South Language Body without formal approval from the governments in the republic and Northern Ireland, it has emerged.

CROSS-BORDER bodies have been the hidden success story of the troubled Good Friday Agreement.

The Government and the Stormont Executive are to consider increasing the number of cross-border bodies, it was disclosed today.