Denis O’Regan can make a successful start to his new role as retained rider to owner Barry Connell by taking the beginners’ chase at Fairyhouse aboard the Alan Fleming-trained Pistol Park.

Four victims of abuser and former Olympic swimming coach Gerard Doyle yesterday settled their High Court actions.

Two brothers charged in connection with the seizure of €50,000 worth of heroin in Limerick have been refused bail after a court was told of Garda fears they might leave the jurisdiction.

At the behest of a reader and a Kilkenny friend of ours, we took another look at Barry Kelly’s decision to overturn a Tipperary 65 last Sunday week. 

RICKSHAW drivers occupy a ubiquitous presence on the streets of the West End. But most Londoners never even give them a moment’s thought.

The Red Mills Unraced Bitch Stake series, run in conjunction with the individual track supporters’ clubs, continues be a great success, and last Friday night’s victory for Badminton Rossa, in the Youghal renewal, was further testament to that.

The going was decidedly more firm than Cheltenham and the Cotswolds course will never present the challenge of newly-laid main drainage overlay, but the on-street battle for glory that is Youghal’s Donkey Derby had punters in East Cork smiling last night.

The next time you hear anyone moaning about the lack of prize money in racing then just refer them to February, 2015.

Our Katie, trained by Garry Ahern, followed-up a recent course success when justifying 11/10 favourite in the opening Irish Stallion Farms Mares Novice Chase in Thurles yesterday, sparking a double for jockey Brian Hayes.

In what a judge described as a sophisticated operation a large shipment of cannabis was delivered to various parts of the country concealed in electric fan boxes.

I recently spent 10 days in The Mercy Hospital in St Catherine’s Ward under respiratory consultant Dr David Curran.

The judge who imposed three-year suspended sentences on the four young people involved in the chain of supply of drugs to two young Dungarvan men found dead in Kinsale said the case was an eloquent expression of the tragedy that drugs destroy lives.

Three men and a woman who were links in a chain of supply of a drug which caused the deaths of two young Dungarvan men in Kinsale in September 2012 were remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentence.

Three men and a woman pleaded guilty yesterday to dealing in a synthetic drug similar to ecstasy in Cork City in September 2012.

Armed detectives fired shots during the hot pursuit of a violent sex offender who repeatedly rammed two Garda patrol cars when cornered in a Limerick city cul-de-sac.

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ALL-Ireland minor football medallist Philip Quirke scored two second-half goals to settle yesterday’s Tipperary SFC semi-final and send Moyle Rovers through to a first decider since 2009.

IN the past few days I was a patient in the Victoria Hospital (ward Longfield 9) for three days.

THE Munster U21FC trophy is destined to return to a traditional force this season after Cork ensured a final meeting with Kerry for the first time since 2004 by dismantling defending champions Tipperary at the semi-final stage last night in Páirc Uí Rinn.

Longford, Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Cavan claimed wins, while Down and Tyrone drew in the Cadbury's Under-21 Football Championship tonight.

Waterford's Stradbally and Dr. Crokes of Kerry advanced to the AIB Munster Club SFC semi-finals today, while Aherlow were crowned Tipperary SFC champions.

SISTERS from Woodstown, Co Waterford, Rosemary and Claire Connors had a clean sweep in the ridden hunter classes at the 93rd Dungarvan Show.

ELECTION candidates hoping to get seats in Cork City Council’s north-east ward may have to walk a tightrope on an issue that proves just how local politics really is.

CAHIR’S quest to go one step better in the 2009 Tipperary SFC shipped a major blow on Saturday when they lost to Ardfinnan in Round one.

I WAS recently a patient in the Mercy Hospital for two weeks, and I would like to that this opportunity to thank the hospital and staff for the wonderful care I received during my stay.

THE mayor of Co Waterford has extended his sympathies to the family of a man feared drowned after slipping into the River Tiber in Rome.

BARRY JOHN KEANE has been drafted into the Kerry minor football attack at corner-forward for today’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Offaly in Newbridge.

KERRY made no mistake at the second attempt when they had 10 points to spare over Tipperary in the replay of the ESB Munster minor football championship final at Ennis on Saturday.

TIPPERARY football received a massive shot in the arm at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday where their minors drew with Kerry in a hugely entertaining Munster final.

EXTREMELY poor finishing cost Limerick dearly in Semple Stadium yesterday evening in this Munster minor football semi-final.

DEVELOPER Tom Gilmartin — who alleges falling foul of political corruption when he tried to set up a west Dublin project in the early 1990s — was an honourable and truthful man, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

All-Ireland Club hurling champions Ballyhale Shamrocks had to dig deep before registering a five points win over Carlow side Mount Leinster Rangers in their Leinster Championship opener at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow this afternoon.

THE proposed merger of the Mercy and South Infirmary hospitals in Cork is not a good idea.

JUST after 6.30pm, the hush descended, as respectful a silence as ever gifted to Ronan O’Gara on any occasion he steps up to the ball. Except this time it was Martin Harvey, Cork city sheriff, stepping up to the microphone to finally announce the first count results.

HUGE psychological damage would be caused to child abuse victims if the Laffoy Commission was unable to listen to and believe their stories, a lawyer representing some of the victims declared yesterday.

THE Christian Brothers have questioned the ability of the Laffoy Commission to make any findings where the evidence of alleged victims of child abuse cannot be challenged.