Sizing Australia (12-1) denied Enda Bolger’s Zest For Life a second win at the Punchestown Festival by the narrowest of margins in the Irish Field Chase.

Sligo ended their Division Three campaign with a flourish when defeating their neighbours at a wet Markievicz Park.

Misty For Me upstaged Midday in remarkable fashion when making all the running to land the Stobart Ireland Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

ON behalf of Headway, the national association for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), I would like to express my disappointment at the apparent mismanagement of funds in relation to the care of brain-injured patients in the public health system as highlighted in your report headlined ‘Security bill for patient heading for €1 million’ (September 13).

THE alarming level of suicide has been described as “a national disaster”, with figures showing the number who took their lives last year to be the highest in a decade.

NIGEL Twiston-Davies has no fears about the track as his Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Imperial Commander bids to follow up in the totesport Bowl at Aintree today.

FRANCE coach Raymond Domenech has ignored the pleas of Zinedine Zidane and refused to pick his fit-again captain Patrick Vieira for the World Cup qualifying play-off against Ireland on November 14.

The "Taxi drivers for change" organisation is holding a protest in Dublin city centre this afternoon, as part of its ongoing campaign for a license moratorium.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

The vulnerability of road users was highlighted today as victims of road crashes were remembered around the country.

Europe’s human rights watchdog today urged the Irish authorities to crack down on ill-treatment in prisons and impose “severe sanctions” on prison staff using unnecessary violence to deal with inmates.

FA Cup holders Liverpool have been drawn at home to Arsenal in the pick of the ties in the third round of this year’s competition.

MILFORD hung on by their fingernails in a thrilling finish to this Evening Echo Cork Co IHC played in atrocious underfoot conditions at Killavullen on Saturday.

Discreet Cat will have to “win and win well” in Saturday’s UAE Derby if he is to be considered a legitimate contender for a trip to Kentucky, connections have reported.

A RADICAL overhaul of mental health services that will see the closure of the country’s remaining mental hospitals and the money from their sale spent on developing community-based mental health care will begin this year.

IT was a case of mixed emotions for the Irish last weekend at the Samsung Super League Nations Cup Show in La Baule, France, where early domination disipated on the final day in the wake of a supreme performance by the host team.

Alvaro Recoba returned with a vengeance from a year of torment and goes to the World Cup living up to his status as the world’s best-paid footballer.

Kanu is the man to drag Nigerian football away from the self-destruct button threatening to detonate their chances of success in this summer’s Far East football extravaganza.

Zinedine Zidane, the most expensive player in the history of football and the inspiration behind France’s 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 triumphs, is primed for action on the global stage once again this summer.

Nothing can impact upon a footballer’s career quite like a sticking sobriquet. But imagine being branded ‘Glass Legs’, the moniker afforded Robert Prosinecki in his injury-ravaged Primera Liga days.

Should David Beckham lead England out to face Argentina on the greatest stage of all on June 7 the Manchester United superstar will have come full circle.