This week’s Small Business Show news looks at how SMEs across Ireland are counting the cost of the Garth Brooks saga and why it could means businesses going to the wall over the situation.

STAN DE GAME, jointly owned by Con Riordan and Kevin Downing from Ballymacoda, Co. Cork and trained by John Condon in Curraglass, collected his second All-Aged Stake of the season when he won the Fitzgerald Cup at Glanworth yesterday.

THE combined division one and two cup in women’s hockey saw eight games being played between Saturday and yesterday and for UCC it was a bad weekend, with all three of their sides in action crashing out.