It has been an up-and-down week in greyhound racing, the obvious positive being the end to the saga over a deal with SIS to show live pictures from Mullingar, Youghal and Tralee.

Amongst his more familiar but less tactful friends, Donal Leahy is oft jokingly referred to as The Nearly Man. Mafi Magic and Two Excuses must accept their share of the blame for that.

FROM THE privileged vantage point of the balcony high up in the stand, Limerick Racecourse was a picture yesterday morning, a radiant rural sunlit sight, everything perfectly in place for the 105th Irish Cup Meeting.

ON the 87th anniversary of the burning of the courthouse in Croom, Co Limerick, I visited Anhid Cemetery to pay my respects to the memory of the three IRA volunteers who lost their lives in that action on May 31, 1921, and who are laid to rest there.