THE opening session of the J P McManus Irish Cup at Limerick Racecourse yesterday had its usual quota of shocks with the biggest being the elimination of last year’s winner, Castlemartyr (unsighted) by Another Session.

Clonmel is coursing’s Mecca, an annual pilgrimage repeated over the three-day early spring National Coursing Meet at Powerstown Racecourse, but it’s a restricted affair.