Leopardstown yesterday is easy to describe. There’s never been an afternoon like it at the track, writes Pat Keane.

Tony McCoy today announced he is to retire from racing at the end of the season.

Champion jockey Tony McCoy has said that watching Roy Keane in a recent television documentary was an unsettling experience, because it was like looking at himself in the mirror.

Tony McCoy has one booked ride at Southwell today as he sets out on the road to what could be another 1,000 winners to add to the record haul of 4,000 he reached at Towcester with a trademark ride on Mountain Tunes.

Nerves of steel combined with a generous spirit make AP a hero, on- and off-course.

Tony McCoy produced the kind of swashbuckling ride for which he has become so famed as he secured his 4,000th winner over jumps at Towcester yesterday.

The cold seeps deep into our bones, and darkness begins to roll across Lambourn, the small village which calls itself the Valley of the Racehorse, but Tony McCoy is already high in the sunlit hills of his latest ambition.

AP McCoy: My Autobiography

Jockey Tony McCoy has been crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Tony McCoy distanced himself from any possibility of stepping into the shadows as he basked in the glory of a first John Smith’s Grand National success aboard Don’t Push It.

Hundreds of race fans welcomed first-time Grand National winner Tony McCoy and his horse Don’t Push It back home to their stables today.

Tony McCoy was reduced to tears as Don’t Push It raced to glory in the John Smith’s Grand National to give the champion jockey his first win in the great race at the 15th attempt.

“I’VE always said there are some advantages to being over-65,” jokes Mary Patton, administrative co-ordinator at the HSE’s swine flu clinic in Mallow, Co Cork.

Chanelle Hayes has been hospitalised after taking an overdose of painkillers and red wine.

Tony McCoy is expected to leave hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery on his back injury.

Brian Belo tonight won the eighth series of Big Brother after coming top in the public vote.

Fourth in the public vote was former boyband member Ziggy Lichman, 26, whose romance with Posh Spice wannabe Chanelle was one of the main talking points in this year’s show.

Youth worker Carole Vincent and museum visitor assistant Jonty Stern became the first two housemates to be evicted in tonight’s Big Brother finale.

The eighth series of Big Brother ends tomorrow night after 13 weeks.

Four Big Brother housemates faced a difficult decision last night when they were told to choose two people for an eviction vote as a punishment for discussing nominations.

BB lovebirds Ziggy and Chanelle were momentarily reunited after the 19-year-old former housemate made a sensational comeback.

Big Brother’s Ziggy confessed he was pining for Chanelle in a spate of confidences in the house.

Big Brother star Chanelle is planning a music career.

Big Brother’s Chanelle Hayes has spoken out about her secret abortion and her hatred for the man who murdered her mother.

The male population of the Big Brother house dwindled again yesterday as Liam McGough was chosen to join Ziggy Lichman in the Halfway House.

Big Brother's Ziggy Lichman will wake up in unfamiliar surroundings today following a day in which ex-flame Chanelle Hayes walked from the show and housemates voted him into the “halfway house”.

Victoria Beckham fan Chanelle Hayes today became the latest contestant to walk out of the Big Brother house.

The first of five potential housemates got the chance to spend some time in the main Big Brother house today in the hope of being asked to move in permanently.

Big Brother loudmouth Charley is facing eviction tonight as one of the shortest-priced favourites to go in the show’s history.

Big Brother housemate Chanelle threatened to leave the show in an outburst over playing the violin in the group’s latest task.

Big Brother housemates Charley and Tracey are facing eviction on Friday after receiving six nominations each last night.

Dreams by the Big Brother contestants of becoming TV celebrities have materialised sooner then expected after the housemates were set the task of running their own TV channel

Paranoia and mistrust have set in as Fake Week sees “Big Brother witches” Charley and Nicky face a bogus eviction tonight.

The latest twists in Big Brother’s Fake Week will see Charley Uchea and Nicky Maxwell facing a bogus eviction, while false housemate “Pauline” has left the house.

Big Brother’s Charley and Nicky will face this week’s fake eviction.

With a fake housemate in their midst and a fake eviction looming, it is no surprise paranoia is beginning to take hold in the Big Brother house.

Laura was evicted from the Big Brother house tonight as a new “Australian” housemate was revealed.

Laura was evicted from the Big Brother house tonight as programme makers promised a surprise twist.

Big Brother housemates laid into the twins again today, claiming they are playing a game and hiding their true intelligence behind a feigned passion for pink.

KNOW of anyone, prior to the race now, who thought Sunday’s renewal of the Budweiser Irish Derby wasn’t sub-standard?

Big Brother housemates Chanelle Hayes and Laura Williams will go head to head in this week’s eviction vote but neither contestant expressed much sorrow at the idea of leaving the house.

The Big Brother housemates marked twins Sam and Amanda’s 19th birthday with sober – but noisy – celebrations.

Ziggy has called an end to his love affair with Chanelle after rumours of her flirtations with fellow Big Brother housemate Billi had him questioning their relationship.

Channel 4 has denied that 'Big Brother' housemates Ziggy and Chanelle have had sex in the house - even though bookmakers have paid out.