Through his grief, a father summoned his strength and made a pledge to his dead children, promising: “I will look after your mammy.”

A leading figure in Irish horseracing, Annemarie O’Brien, has backed a report on converting Ireland’s largest electricity station from coal to biomass.

DISTURBING data released by Nasa, earlier this week, showed that, last month, global temperatures smashed records. The figures brought a new urgency to warnings of a climate emergency, but whether they provoke the change needed to slow this escalation remains to be seen.

AIDAN O’Brien, fresh from a treble on Tuesday, took his tally for the two days to four when Liszt galloped his rivals silly in the featured Waste Disposal Ltd Handicap at Killarney last night.

AIDAN O’Brien defied the might of the Queen Of England when his Poet beat the royal runner, Four Winds, in the Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney last night.