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A first-hand civilian account of the 1916 Rising has been returned to Dublin almost a century after being written by a visiting English opera singer.

Hidden stories, the Lusitania, and alien invasions are all on TV tonight

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Felix Yonger got up right on the line to deny Mallowney in the feature Kerry Group Hilly Way Chase as he headlined a treble for trainer Willie Mullins at Cork yesterday.

Call Rog and Spot Fine provided Mouse Morris with a 26/1 double on another successful Student Day in Sligo yesterday.

Small fields and very moderate horses is the less than exciting fare on offer at Sligo this afternoon.

Willie Mullins’ Indevan easily reversed previous Kilbeggan form with Bally Longford in the Benchmark Hospitality Novice Chase at rain-swept Killarney last night.

Marchese Marconi, having a second run of the festival, can land the nap in the Ladbrokes’ Mobile Maiden Hurdle at Galway this afternoon.

Tom Mullins and Paul Townend, who teamed up to win with Elsie at Roscommon on Tuesday, again join forces at Cork tonight with Grand Partner and the six-year-old is fancied to land the nap in the Great Value Social Package Maiden Hurdle.

An enterprising, front-running ride by Brian Cawley saw the versatile Rodriguez land the featured Leo Dolan Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Roscommon last night.

The Galway Plate is on the agenda for both Art Of Logistics and Away We Go following wins at Punchestown last evening.

Simon Mannix’s time at Munster may be up but the former backs coach is bringing the province’s number eight, James Coughlan, with him to new club Pau.

Munster have announced that James Coughlan is leaving the province at the end of June.

Breaking Bad, Gatsby and Game of Thrones have all inspired baby names in the UK this year, while the desire not to be seen as a “Kate copycat” had led to a decline in the popularity of royal names, according to website BabyCentre.

TV PRESENTER Pamela Flood, 42, is on a natural high. Her second child Elsie, was born last month.

Twelve years ago, Benjamin Clark saved hundreds of lives in the South Tower.

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Champion trainer Willie Mullins, currently in France pursuing potential stars of the future, dominated last night’s action in Punchestown, completing a treble with Raptor, Letherbelucky and Passage Vendome.

Off the track since finishing unplaced in the Munster National last October, Casey Top captured the featured McSweeney Arms Hotel Handicap Chase in Killarney yesterday.

Patience should be rewarded by the Tom Mullins-trained mare Elsie in tonight’s bumper in Killarney, the Killarney Racegoers Ladies Flat Race.

A long-lost takeaway treat favoured by generations of Corkonians has been given a new lease of life.

A Tipperary woman who has passed away aged 105 put her long life down to having a glass of wine and a dance every day, her family said yesterday.

Kym Marsh is to appear in the 'Coronation Street' musical.

DESCRIBED by her trainer as “an iron mare“, Blazing Tempo turned over odds-on favourite Noble Prince to land the Grade 2 Norman Grove Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday, providing Willie Mullins with the highlight of a superb four-timer.

The legendary guitarist Slash is working full steam ahead in a Los Angeles studio until Christmas, laying down tracks for his second solo album, hoping to double the amount of songs he has already completed.

THE women of Ardmore/Grange ICA Guild competed in the Eleanora Gibbon Competition in Mullingar in mid-June with a 15-minute parody of “music, song, dance and skit”.

Kris Smith's mother hopes he can save his relationship with Dannii Minogue.

Porto manager Andre Villas-Boas wrote his name into the history books by lifting the Europa League at the Aviva Stadium last night before moving quickly to insist that neither he nor his star players will be leaving the club this summer.

Sharp-tongued Blanche Hunt has beaten Weatherfield legends such as Hilda Ogden and Elsie Tanner to be named Coronation Street’s best-loved character of all time.

TIPPERARY woman Anne McGrath was named the national Carer of the Year in a ceremony that blew away the gloom of recession, at least for a while.

THERE’S no sign of a thaw in the big freeze in relations between the FAI and FIFA after John Delaney branded Sepp Blatter an “embarrassment” and revealed that an offer of a Fair Play gong – due to be presented at last night’s World Player of the Year bash in Zurich – had been turned down.

Paul Gascoigne, the former England midfielder whose tears became one of the iconic images of the 1990 World Cup, admitted he could not stop crying when he learned his former manager Sir Bobby Robson had finally lost his long fight against cancer yesterday.

Stubbs Art is reported to have made the necessary progress to suggest another bold effort against Henrythenavigator and New Approach in Saturday’s Boylesports Irish 2000 Guineas.

There was a surprise in the opening Weddings At The Morritt Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Redcar when 16-1 chance Lucky Leigh raced to a convincing success in the hands of Eddie Creighton.

CONSISTENT with the general trend in camogie, the manager of the Cork side contesting Sunday’s All-Ireland senior final in Croke Park is a man!

FOR the young man on the door, it was time to move on.

BOBBY ROBSON, international football consultant with the Republic of Ireland, has vowed to “battle as I’ve always done” after been diagnosed with cancer for the fifth time.

Republic of Ireland advisor and former England manager Bobby Robson has been diagnosed with cancer for the fifth time.

IRISH International Football Consultant Bobby Robson was released from hospital yesterday but will undergo further tests later this week.