Visitor numbers at one of the country’s newest and most original visitor attractions have more than doubled expectations during its first year in operation.

A former Coolmore Stud employee has asked the High Court for orders preventing his former employer from threatening booksellers who sell a book he wrote about the stud with defamation proceedings.

The world-renowned Coolmore Stud has been ordered by an Employment Appeals Tribunal to pay €18,000 to a former stable hand who was dismissed after he took €220.

A former employee at Coolmore Stud has been refused injunctions preventing its lawyers writing to booksellers and distributors alleging his book contained defamatory material in breach of the rights of Coolmore and others.

The going in Thurles is very good and conditions are favourable for a special fundraiser in aid of a local school’s autism unit.

A Tipperary man who has written a book about his experiences working at Coolmore Stud has asked the High Court for injunctions restraining the stud seeking to frustrate sales of his book.

A leading figure in Irish horseracing, Annemarie O’Brien, has backed a report on converting Ireland’s largest electricity station from coal to biomass.

Three people are entitled to a 20% share of a racehorse which was sold for £315,000 (€430,000) more than two years ago, the High Court has ruled.

Retiring champion jump jockey Tony McCoy has quite a bit to thank Summerfield in Cork’s Carrigaline for.

Wood Breizh, who had struggled over the winter on bad ground, ran away with the Average Pick 6 Dividend Maiden Hurdle for in-form Paul Townend at Tramore last evening.

STEPPING across the threshold of PJ Mara’s home in leafy Ballsbridge, Dublin, you feel a certain dread that you’re about to be ripped apart as a journalist.

St Nicholas Abbey is recuperating in intensive care after undergoing complex surgery on a career-ending injury to a pastern.

St Nicholas Abbey is recuperating in intensive care after undergoing complex surgery on a career-ending injury to a pastern.

Irish 2000 Guineas winner Magician is set to sidestep Saturday’s Investec Derby at Epsom, according to owners Coolmore Stud.

Multiple Group One winning sprinter Starspangled- banner could be set for a surprise return to training due to fertility problems at stud.

Bord Bia yesterday launched the Ireland-China Food Hub and the Ireland-China Food Network, capping an excellent week for relations between the two countries.

Good luck wishes go to China in its bid to establish a multi-billion dollar thoroughbred breeding and training facility, with Irish help.

Irish horseracing expertise and breeding stock from the world famous Coolmore Stud is to be the foundation for the creation of a horse racing industry in China providing an export market for almost €40m worth of Irish horses annually.

Two of today’s stories perfectly illustrate the great, diametrically-opposed challenges facing this society.

JOANNE McCain, daughter of the late Ginger McCain, is one of 12 people to have been chosen to ride in the St Patrick’s Day Derby charity race on Thursday, March 15 at the Cheltenham Festival.

A COMPANY co-owned by horse trainer Aidan O’Brien has made a tax settlement of more than €500,000 with the Revenue Commissioners.

A €460 million sport and leisure venue in Tipperary – incorporating a major casino development – moved a step closer last night when it was granted planning permission by the local council.

A filly by Galileo out of the half-sister to European Champion two and three-year-old New Approach was the star turn on the opening day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

DEVELOPER Bernard McNamara will provide a sworn statement of his assets and liabilities to investors pursuing him for €62.5 million but it is “impossible” for him to outline the current value of his assets, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

ONE THOUSAND construction jobs for north Tipperary for three years, followed by 2,000 more jobs in the finished development sounds like a good deal that no government could object to, especially when no government financial assistance is being sought.

YOU would think that given the week that’s in it, Declan Fanning would be utterly consumed by tomorrow’s All-Ireland final, that all that would be on Tipperary right half-back’s mind would be how to contain this Kilkenny attack, how to deal with reigning hurler-of-the-year Eoin Larkin especially.

Vincent O’Brien, perhaps the greatest trainer of all time, died earlier today, aged 92, at his home in Straffan, Co Kildare.

CHAMPION trainer Aidan O’Brien has welcomed An Bord Pleanála’s refusal of planning permission for an animal waste processing facility in south Tipperary.

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission for a bio-fuel production plant in Co Tipperary.

PROMOTERS of a bio-energy plant which would be located close to champion trainer Aidan O’Brien’s south Tipperary base will have to wait until late July for a planning decision.

DUBAI’S crown prince paid $2.7 million (€1.7m) for a camel during a desert festival celebrating Bedouin traditions in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, according to state-run media on Tuesday.

ONE of Ireland’s leading wood energy companies has teamed up with a world-famous stud farm to provide a cleaner, greener solution to some of its heating needs, right on its own doorstep.

Connections of British raider Purple Moon are hoping the worst of the weather stays away ahead of Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Mahler got his Emirates Melbourne Cup preparations back on track with a satisfactory spin on Thursday.

IRISH stud owners with valuable stallions now quarantined in Australia, where equine flu is spreading, will be hard hit financially if the lock-down continues.

MORE than 200 objections have been lodged to plans for the construction of a processing plant for animal waste close to the world-famous Coolmore Stud and Ballydoyle Stables in Co Tipperary.

CLONACODY House and its 122 acre estate at Fethard, Co Tipperary has attracted some very heavy hitters in the equestrian world since it went up for sale a few weeks ago.

The financial consequences for former champion jockey Kieren Fallon and his dependants will be disastrous if his current racing ban is upheld, the High Court heard today.

A COMPANY connected to the Coolmore Stud farm operation paid out over €1.4 million in dividends to shareholders last year.

A COMPANY connected to the Coolmore Stud farm operation paid out over €1.4 million in dividends to shareholders last year.