Ruby Walsh warmed-up for the revamped two-day Punchestown meeting, which opens this evening, by registering a fine treble on Back To Balloo, Terminal and Devil’s Elbow on Bank Holiday Monday in Down Royal.

The Imperial Cup (3.15) provides a nice teaser to the Cheltenham Festival and whoever solves the Sandown puzzle can go into next week’s four-day fiesta with a spring in their step.

DEVIL’S Elbow looks the banker bet on this evening’s mixed card in Roscommon.

What saves this violent revenge film is that it knows it’s daft but asks us to sit back and enjoy it anyway … which, for the most part, we do (with a tinge of guilt).

WHEN the going gets tough, the tough get going, but even the hardiest sailors think twice before venturing out in a gale. That’s why the competitors at Cork Week in Crosshaven were relieved yesterday when the weather prophets of doom proved to be too pessimistic.

NORMALLY you won’t find a boy named Sue in Sweden.

A STRANGE ghostly light can appear over bogs at night.

Leonardo DiCaprio is being lined up for a role in forthcoming comic book adaptation ‘Spawn’, being helmed by Todd McFarlane.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being forced to watch his appearance as the Devil's gay lover in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut "repeatedly", according to the cult cartoon's creator Matt Stone.

I WAS sickened to read the description and view the photographs of the cruel slaughter of thousands of pigs on a Waterford farm recently.

Experts fear the Tasmanian devil might survive only in Warner Bros cartoons, as a mystery disease slashes the ferocious scavenger’s numbers in the wild.

SOME would hail him as a modern-day Dr Faustus, the man who sold his soul to the Devil for 24 years of satanic indulgence.

THE little girl at the door on Hallowe’en was charmed when I let on to be scared of her witch costume.

Libya today recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia for consultations following a heated and public exchange of insults between Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah at an Arab summit.

Liam Neeson, about to be seen alongside Harrison Ford in The Widowmaker and in Martin Scorsese's all-star Gangs of New York, is down to play Father Merrin in Exorcist 4:1, the prequel to the original.

A judge in Germany has ordered a Satanic couple who committed murder to be sent to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.

A leading cleric tipped to succeed the Pope has published ten rules on how to resist Satan.