Willie Mullins ended his Punchestown Festival on a high as he claimed the final two Grade Ones of the week to take his tally for the meeting to 13 winners.

JIMMY Mangan’s Rudi Trucker indicated that he’s set for another productive hunter chase campaign this season by sluicing home in the lady riders open at yesterday’s North Tipperary Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Nenagh, the only hunt racing fixture to take place over the weekend.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service's 'Blood for Life' week is underway.

ONE of the scientists behind the bid to create human-animal embryos said their work could help treat human diseases.

IN 2001 Galway For Life sought to highlight allegations that the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), an organisation that the Government financially supports, had in the late 1990s been involved in a campaign of compulsory sterilisation of over 100,000 Peruvian women.