Nobody living in a leafy estate on the outskirts of a town in west Waterford expected an incident involving some rowdy, bottle-throwing youths to end up in the death of one of the gang.

NOTHING quite beats winning at home and Richard Hennessy did precisely that when recording his initial career two-timer at yesterday’s Killeagh Harriers point-to-point meeting for the fixture was staged on his father Joe’s farm at Knockane outside Killeagh.

SPILL THE BEANS, who had hit the bar on a couple of occasions previously, got off the mark when landing the opening maiden hurdle at Tramore yesterday.