Defending champion Aidan Murphy is well placed to win his third Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads crown at Ballincurrig on Sunday.

Business people and householders may have differing views on Cork City’s €50m flood defence plans, but they’re united in one respect — the Government must ensure insurance companies offer all flood victims renewed cover once the works are completed.

Castle Wings was left to open his account over fences in fortuitous fashion after the long odds-on Blood Cotil took a crashing fall at the second last in the McCarthy Insurance Group Beginners Chase at Cork.

Willie Mullins’ Blood Cotil, in the McCarthy Insurance Group Beginners Chase, is easily the most interesting horse on show at Cork this afternoon.

House buyers may be able to get a mortgage, but without house insurance the banks won’t release the funds, as Laurie O’Flynn reports

Tonight’s card at Curraheen Park features the final of the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks and it’s hard to look beyond Paul Hennessy’s Priceless Spark as she bids to complete an unbeaten run through the stake.

Tonight’s second semi-final of the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks at Curraheen Park looks tailor-made for Lass Cause, who should prove too good for her rivals and therefore earns the nap selection.

The first round of the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks take place at Curraheen tonight and Priceless Spark rates nap material in the third of the four heats.

WILLIE MULLINS’ long odds-on Final Approach never left second gear when taking the McCarthy Insurance Group 60th Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

THE 2007 Champion Hurdle hero, Sublimity, turned back the clock at Cork yesterday with a game success in the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle.

Sublimity made the most of a significant drop in class as he got back to winning ways with a workmanlike victory in the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle at Cork.

MORNING SUPREME can continue the terrific currently run being enjoyed by Willie Mullins and Paul Townend by landing the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Beginners Chase at Cork this afternoon.

BLARNEY trainer John Linehan will be breaking new ground when he challenges for the Williamhill.com English Derby with his Curraheen Park qualifier Droopys Sastre.

CORK this afternoon is subject to an 8am inspection, due to the prospect of a severe frost overnight, but if the meeting survives then Adrian Maguire’s Mr Warbucks can land the nap in the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle.

EXPRESS TUNE set herself up for a tilt at the Sporting Press Irish Oaks with an authoritative display in the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks at Curraheen Park on Saturday night.

The McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks kicked-off at Curraheen Park on Saturday with Lughill Jewel setting the early pace with a 28.50 effort in heat in heat 3.

THE progressive Niall Madden-trained Wins Now can land the McCarthy Insurance Group Hurdle at Cork this afternoon.

THE semi-finals of the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks top the bill at Curraheen Park tonight and Ballymac Floss can get backers off to a flier in the first.

TOM TAAFFE, who broke the news earlier in the day that Kicking King would miss the Cheltenham Gold Cup, had a modicum of compensation when In The High Grass won the Kanturk Maiden Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

AN insurance broker who made a tax settlement of over €6 million with the Revenue Commissioners says he will sue AIB bank after “they hung me out to dry”.

PAUL HENNESSY may have had a blinder at Shelbourne but the opposite was the case at Curraheen Park where he had a mini disaster in the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks semi-finals.

IF trial times are anything to go by, then we are in for a very fast session in the opening round of the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Oaks at Curraheen Park tonight.

Champion jockey Paul Carberry and his great rival Barry Geraghty continued to dominate the jumping scene when they both recorded doubles at Cork.