The Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida opened last week with a double for Shane Sweetnam, and Wednesday saw the Corkman join Conor Swail and Darragh Kenny to kick off week two with a hat-trick of Irish wins.

STEVE JOBS was mourned around the world through the devices he conceived: People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, reviewed his life on Macintosh computers and tapped out tributes on iPhones.

The lavish screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's massive stage musical hit, into which he pumped £4m of his own money, looks good, sounds as it should; and is a bit of a clunker.

A HOST of top actors will begin shooting a multi-million-euro Irish production of Maeve Binchy’s Tara Road today.