Wexford has two claims to fame: A world-class opera festival and a renowned nature reserve.

Riverside City swooped late to foil top-weight Man From Van in the featured Toals Bookmakers Ulster Grad National in Downpatrick yesterday, providing the highlight of a double for Gordon Elliott and Davy Condon.

A powerful thriller, written by Fox for Cantwell’s feature debut, that has been two years in the making, that manages to cover that much-tramped territory of the turmoil of the recent civil unrest in the North.

Three amateur robbers from the 'Keystone cops' era whose planned armed raid on a Securicor van at the Lucan Spa Hotel was foiled by gardaí have received a total of 12 years in sentences.

The low-budget indie 'Anton' has wrapped production after shooting in Cavan, Dublin and Paris.