Yesterday bookmakers were going 5-1 the field for the Cheltenham Gold Cup and that indicates they’re just as confused as us mere punters.

You don’t have to be any sort of genius to now know Notebook is a very good horse.

A Plus Tard inflicted a surprise defeat on Chacun Pour Soi in the Paddy’s Rewards Club “Loyalty’s Dead, Live For Rewards” Chase at Leopardstown.

Notebook continued his unbeaten record over fences with a convincing victory in the Racing Post Novice Chase at Leopardstown.

Five simple words summed it up.

With the National Hunt campaign approaching its halfway stage, Colm Greaves assesses the current state of play

Paul Townend four winners, Ruby Walsh three and Rachael Blackmore two, the fascinating characters who largely dominated last Sunday’s racing in Ireland - at Punchestown and Cork, writes Pat Keane.

Two ladies dominated day two in Killarney, Maxine O’Sullivan ensuring a day to remember for her family when winning aboard Citizen Al before doubling up in the bumper, aboard the gambled-on Raya Time, and Rachael Blackmore also completing a brace, aboard Icantsay and Benkei.

There was a huge crowd at Cork Racecourse for a bumper, eight-race programme on Easter Sunday, and the feature race, the Vincent O’Brien Centenary Chase, went, in great style, to Val De Ferbet.

Colm Greaves examines three things we’ll learn on day four at Cheltenham...

Pioneering hard rock band Deep Purple are back with a new album. Roger Glover tells Joe Nerssessian how he’s learnt from some of his bad experiences.

A woman car passenger encouraged a male driver to mow down a group of pedestrians, a court heard.

Listen Dear, trained for the Supreme Horse Racing Club by Willie Mullins, proved the star of Ballinrobe’s final meeting of 2016 yesterday when making an impressive chasing debut in the Connacht Tribune Beginners Chase.

Frankie Dettori moved to within two winners of his 3,000th success in Britain as Hollywood Road prevailed close home in the Tamdown Handicap at Newmarket.

Rachael Blackmore recorded her first success as a professional when getting 11-2 chance Most Honourable home in front by the narrowest of margins in the Woodrooff Handicap Hurdle last night at Clonmel track.

DJ Dave Lee Travis was “very, very professional” when he took naked pictures of a female musician at his house, she told a court.

JP O’Malley talks to Irish artist David Blackmore who managed to walk from Malin to Mizen without passing a pub

Billy Corgan has lashed out at Radiohead.

FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny yesterday contended up to five companies recruited to work on the PPARS payroll system for the health services may have been involved in facilitating tax avoidance.

FINE GAEL leader Enda Kenny yesterday called on the Health Services Executive to “come clean” on the €2 million it paid to a recruitment firm he says is a shelf company.

A shelf company was paid €2m by the Health Services Executive for its work on a controversial payroll system, it was claimed tonight.

A Waterford man “was grinning” as he repeatedly stabbed another man after intervening in a fight over a CD, a witness at the Central Criminal Court has claimed.

Soham accused Ian Huntley cut off Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman’s clothes as their bodies lay in a remote ditch, his lawyer admitted today.