ROOFTOP PROTEST sprung a minor surprise when seeing off odds-on favourite Rocket Ship in the Diffusion Event Management Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

The Government has created a new Financial Services Ombudsman to pursue complaints against banks and other institutions on behalf of consumers, it emerged today.

The funeral of Irish showjumper Paul Darragh is due to take place in Co Meath this morning.

LIBERMAN has left the Tom Mullins yard and returned to England to again be trained by Martin Pipe.

FOR the 300 members of the Irish Nationwide who turned up at the building society’s annual general meeting yesterday many of them must have wondered if they were in the proper venue.

LIMERICK senior hurling coach Dave Keane is seeking to have Friday’s Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final between UL and WIT put back to next Tuesday.

DERMOTT LENNON, who became Ireland’s first ever world show jumping champion in Spain last September, was yesterday awarded The Irish Field award as leading show jumper of 2002.