Love was in the air at the Air Spectacular show in Bray in Co Wicklow this afternoon - one woman used the event as an unique way to propose to her boyfriend.

Bob Lingo continued the tremendous run of owner JP McManus when bagging the €75,000 Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase on the final day of the Easter Festival at Fairyhouse.

MILLTOWN-Castlemaine held off the determined Craigbane challenge and secured a Croke Park date in three weeks’ time.

A judge has lifted a bail condition restricting the movement of Dublin pub owner John Stokes who is accused of assault, possession of stun guns and threatening another publican to stop trading.

St Fachtna’s, Skibbereen 0-13 Coláiste na Sceilge 0-9

A GOOD first half paved the way for Milltown-Castlemaine to reach the Munster club IFC final at Mallow yesterday as they withstood a strong second-half Newmarket comeback.

MID Kerry’s inter-county contingent will have a major say in the outcome of Sunday’s Kerry senior final, according to team captain Colm Kerins.

A Dublin pub owner accused of threatening another publican to stop trading within 24 hours is facing additional charges for assault, possession of cocaine and having two stun guns.

LOUGHREA’S St Brigid’s completed a stunning year at All-Ireland vocational hurling level when their senior side pipped Roscrea CC by two points in a thrilling SAHC final in Semple Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

THE Oliver McKiernan-trained Follow The Plan was a shock 25-1 winner of the Grade 2 Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday.

THE thought of holding age-old Puck Fair without the regal presence of a wild goat is unimaginable, but it could yet happen.

THE John Murphy-trained Newmill rekindled memories of the past when landing the Grade 2 Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday.

GER REIDY of Castleisland Desmonds and Aidan O’Shea from the Glenbeigh-Glencarr club are the two new faces on the Kerry team to play Donegal in the opening round of the Allianz NFL at Austin Park, Tralee tomorrow.

RUBY WALSH’S decision to go to Limerick last night for just one ride paid dividends when he guided Imperial Rose to victory in the Holmes O’Malley Sexton Hurdle.

PUNTERS have struggled all week, but fortunes were taken out of the ring by Wichita Lineman in the Brit Insurance Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday, giving Tony McCoy a much needed change of fortune.

ARAN CONCERTO will travel to Cheltenham next month with all guns blazing, following a smooth success in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown on Saturday.

A RISING star of Irish horse racing died in Australia yesterday with his mother at his side.

Irish jockey Damien Murphy has died with his mother and sister at his hospital bedside in Sydney following a race fall at Wellington, in central-west NSW.

CHELTENHAM Gold Cup third Forget The Past produced a sparkling display of jumping and staying power to land the MacLochlainn Road Markings Ltd Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday.

IF ever a horse has future Cheltenham Gold Cup prospect written all over him it is surely Jonjo O'Neill's Black Jack Ketchum.

THE Gold Cup was a magnificent spectacle with a great young horse in War Of Attrition being ridden to perfection by a fantastic old soldier in Conor O’Dwyer. And we had an Irish 1-2-3. Happy days.

HORSE RACING Ireland last night announced the nominees for the 2005 HRI awards.

PEOPLE from as far away as Dublin and Mayo joined up to 1,200 volunteers yesterday as the search intensified for missing schoolboy Robert Holohan.

PEOPLE from as far away as Dublin and Mayo joined up to 1,200 volunteers yesterday as the search intensified for missing schoolboy Robert Holohan.

Kilmurry/Ibrickane 2-7 Milltown-Castlemaine 0-8

THE first five horses home were disqualified for taking the wrong course in an amateur riders’ race at Towcester yesterday and the £2,555 prize was awarded to the sixth horse to finish.

NATIVE UPMANSHIP had his expected easy victory in the MacLochlainnn Road Markings Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday, proving far too good for Arctic Copper and Moscow Express.

Wicklow 4-9 Kerry 2-12