Rising Twirl looks the best bet in tonight’s quarter-final of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks at Shelbourne Park.

THE new year began — just as 2012 ended — with young people on the march.

Noel O’Brien, 18, from Co Tipperary, is a member of the metal teen band, Army Rising.

RICHARD Fahey is sending over a strong raiding party to the Curragh tomorrow for the opening day of the Irish Flat season.

Timor Blue is unlikely to race again after sustaining a serious wrist injury in a first bend fall in last weekend’s Kerry Agribusiness Irish St Leger final at Limerick.

TONY MARTIN’S Leg Spinner toyed with his rivals on the way to landing the williamhill.ie Handicap Hurdle at Galway yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

Galatee will face the biggest test by far of her short career when she puts her unbeaten record on the line in the Vodafone Oaks at Epsom on Friday.

Final preparations are being made today to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916.

DUBLIN City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter 1916 leader Padraig Pearse handed to a British army general after the Easter Rising.

A developer has agreed to change the name of a construction project after a word from Bruce Springsteen.