Jockey Jason Maguire has lost an appeal against the 14-day ban he picked up at Ludlow last week which rules him out of the upcoming Cheltenham Festival.

A strange sight on Shandon caught the eyes of Shirley McCarthy and her sister on Saturday - two people balancing on a ledge of the 120 ft tall Cork landmark.

The Dalata Hotel Group could spend up to €500m on expanding its portfolio over the next two-to-three years, management said yesterday.

Waterloo, Blarney, Cork €395,000

Deep down music has always been the root of me.

'Strictly Come Dancing' stars have been targeted by thieves who ransacked their changing room.

A private construction company owned by businessman Sean Dunne’s wife, Gayle Killilea, has settled its High Court action over an alleged failure to pay it €2.5m for remedial works to two flooded Dublin 4 hotels.

Dozens of parents who have children with cancer have joined forces to turn Ireland gold for a whole week.

I COULDN’T help it.

EVEN though Derek Jennings worked in addiction support, he didn’t know his own child had started using drugs. “Being a man, I said, ‘I’ll stop it’,” he says of his 14-year-old’s addiction.

A DECADE ago this newspaper carried a regular slot called The Lotto House – looking at that week’s dream offering you could possibly buy with a £1 million National Lottery win.

SOMETHING is rotten — again — at the Tower of London, long known for its treachery, bloodshed, and executions.

Mount Nelson will be Aidan O’Brien’s only runner in Saturday’s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.

AIDAN O’Brien and Johnny Murtagh were in fearful form on day one of Royal Ascot and bookmakers are expecting the pair to hit their satchels hard again today.

Connections of Phoenix Tower are hopeful the step up in trip to 10 furlongs will see their Lockinge runner-up back in front in Wednesday’s Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

A Paris court today sentenced 15 former Eiffel Tower ticket sellers to pay a total of about €697,000 in damages and fines for embezzling about €1m from the ticket office.

ALMOST 100 jobs are to be lost at Couristan carpets in east Cork after the company announced it was bringing carpet manufacturing in Youghal to an end for the first time since 1954.

Wall Street nosedived today after an upswing in consumer prices intensified US investors’ fears that the Federal Reserve will extend its nearly two-year string of interest rate increases.

THE burgeoning Lynch Hotel Group yesterday bought the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin for €11 million from the Jurys Doyle Hotel Group, who are to build a Jurys Inn at London’s Heathrow airport.

Gamblers on a losing streak helped bookmaker and casino operator Stanley Leisure come up trumps on the London market today.