The slump in world markets continues to affect Irish people who splashed out in the boom, writes Diarmaid Condon

Charlie Swan’s Drunken Disorderly will be hoping for better luck as he faces 11 rivals in the Knight Frank Ganly Walters Novice Chase at Leopardstown on Friday.

Crews looking for victims of a weekend tornado in Indiana finished searching the wreckage of a mobile home park and turned their attention today to draining a large pond where it was feared more bodies would be found.

Wall Street trudged through a listless session today, closing narrowly mixed as oil prices edged closer to 45 dollars per barrel and investors hoped for assurance from the Federal Reserve that the economy was still on track.

Trainer Philip Hobbs had Cheltenham next March very much on his mind after impressive performances from the Paul Flynn-ridden duo One Knight and Supreme Prince at Chepstow.