FORMER Kilkenny star Christy Heffernan has claimed Tipperary people have yet to get over the penalty that paved the way for the Cats’ 2009 All-Ireland final success.

ASK Anthony Daly about his first big encounter with Kilkenny and the chances are he won’t talk about the match itself, the 1995 National League final.

SUBLIMITY, who won the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2007, will be retired after running in the Motivate Challenge Supported By Failte Ireland Hurdle at Punchestown tonight.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese added a regal presence to the big race of the day at Cheltenham when she handed over the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle trophy to Dublin man Bill Hennessy, owner of the winner, Sublimity.

TWO magnificent timber-toppers in Brave Inca and Hardy Eustace may now be in decline, but there’s a new kid on the block from Ireland called Sublimity, who showed a devastating turn of foot to land the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at sun-drenched Cheltenham yesterday.

Sublimity and Philip Carberry landed odds of 16-1 in a thrilling renewal of the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle, the feature race on the opening day of the 2007 Cheltenham Festival.

NO place for Charlie Carter or Brian McEvoy in the Kilkenny team for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland hurling final against Clare, but a dream call-up for Jimmy Coogan!