Jockey Eddie O’Connell is to appeal the findings of the Referrals Committee which earlier this week saw him banned for four years by the Turf Club.

This afternoon’s National Hunt fixture at Naas goes ahead as scheduled after the track passed an 8am inspection, but this afternoon’s meeting at Lingfield in England has been abandoned due to snow.

Camelot will face just six rivals in his bid to become the 16th horse tocomplete the Epsom and Irish Derby double at the Curragh tomorrow.

I want to start by describing what Punchestown achieved on Wednesday as quite brilliant.

THE thetote.com Gold Cup, worth €84,000 to the winner, will now be run at Punchestown on Saturday, after it was one of two chases abandoned yesterday.

A young Irish trainer has the chance to put his name on the map in no uncertain fashion today — but it won’t have been by conventional means. Alan Fleming spoke to Declan Colley

Naas have no problems at the moment ahead of Saturday's meeting featuring the Grade Three Woodlands Park 100 Club Poplar Square Chase.

Ireland’s first conference looking at releasing the value of corporate property assets takes place on Thursday at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel.

JESSICA HARRINGTON, one suspects, always knew it would happen!

THE five directors of Pierse Contracting, one of the largest building firms in the country, were paid €4.7 million last year.

LONG-TIME sweethearts, Ann McCarthy and Jim Kennedy, had no sooner said “I do” and signed the parish register yesterday than they were off to the community centre to make their mark once more.