Robbie McNamara has enjoyed plenty of success at the Galway Festival, but yesterday was a red-letter day for the Newbridge, Co Kildare-based trainer as Cascavelle gave him a first winner on the Flat and first at this meeting in his guise as a trainer.

THAT was a really disappointing Eurovision, wasn’t it? I found it really hard to figure out.

An Australian historian and politician is calling for the bodies of two of Ned Kelly’s gang to be exhumed after disputing accepted facts about the group’s final gun battle.

A Croatian teacher was trapped under a pile of books in his bedroom for three days before police rescued him.