Trainer Aidan O’Brien is likely to be triple-handed in the Friarstown Stud Debutante Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

PERHAPS it’s just as well that only a third of Sunday’s likely starting line-up were in the Munster team that lost 23-8 to Perpignan in the Heineken Cup in 2003.

PERHAPS the best investment of €1,500 which many farmers discovered at the Ploughing was the cost of making an application to the Farm Waste Management Grant Scheme.