The track was really flying at Curraheen on Saturday, with numerous very fast times recorded. Chief amongst those was the career-best effort of the Niall Dunne-trained Minor Bound, who shed his maiden status in style, in the first round of the Odds On Dog Food A3 Tri-Distance.

Mitch Winehouse is "bursting with pride" over the unveiling of a statue of his daughter Amy Winehouse.

Jarvis Cocker wants Pulp to reform for next year’s Glastonbury Festival.

A man on the verge of being sacked opened fire at an car parts warehouse in Chicago today.

THE BODY of an Irishman shot dead as he walked along a street in Chicago was flown home yesterday morning ahead of a funeral service in his local South Dublin church tomorrow.