THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by west Cork exhibitors John and Cathal Dineen, Kilshinihan, Timoleague, with their seven-year-old chestnut, Kilshinihan Lass.

Guatemalan authorities abandoned efforts today to recover bodies from a deadly landslide that killed hundreds of people, and blocked villagers’ access to the site to prevent an outbreak of disease.