IT’S fair to say that the tenor John McCormack is chiefly remembered today for his expert renditions of romantic ballads and religious hymns.

LUCIANO Pavarotti’s vibrant high C notes and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar.

JUSTIFIED is fancied to get the better of a fascinating head-to-head with Wild Passion in the Volkswagen Jetta Craddockstown Novice Chase at Punchestown tomorrow.

ONE COOL COOKIE, a strong order morning prices and from 4-6 to 1-2 on track, duly did the business in the first section of the Fillet Beef-Medium Rare Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Michael Bell has warned that Saturday’s Coral-Eclipse Stakes is no two-horse race despite its billing as a match between Motivator and Shamardal.

INTEREST rates in the US may not be increased next week as expected after the dollar tumbled yesterday following the release of US non-farm payroll report for the month.

The FBI has discredited the raw intelligence behind last week’s warning that terrorists might attack West Coast bridges.

Passengers aboard United Flight 93 on September 11 probably saved the lives of people on the ground by rushing the terrorists who had hijacked the jetliner, an FBI official testified.