HORSE Sport Ireland’s performance manager for ponies and children on horses, Ian Fearon, yesterday said Ireland should target next year’s inaugural pony and junior nations cup series.

JESSICA KÜRTEN justified her favourite’s tag yesterday when she won the €130,000 Longines Grand Prix at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show.

A DOUBLE clear from Niall Talbot proved pivotal yesterday as Ireland finished third in the nations cup in Copenhagen, Denmark.

THE announcement on Wednesday of the setting up of the new umbrella body for equestrianism, Horse Sport Ireland (HSI), received broad welcome.

Supermodel Elle McPherson has laughed off speculation she is dating British soap star Ray Fearon, insisting the pair are "strictly friends".

The trial at the Central Criminal Court of a 37-year-old Dublin man accused of murder has heard he stabbed his neighbour.

IT is understood that Eddie Macken was appointed the chef d’equipe of the Irish show jumping team last night.

A drug dealer who was involved in the vicious assault of a taxi-driver who was hit with a brick while face down in a river has been jailed for four years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug dealer who held a taxi-driver's face down in a river while a co-accused hit him with a brick has been jailed for eight years in consecutive sentences by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A burglar who is attempting to sue farmer Tony Martin for loss of earnings was back in custody today after allegedly breaching the terms of his release from prison.

THE British farmer jailed for the manslaughter of a 16-year-old burglar is being sued for up to £15,000

An appeal by jailed farmer Tony Martin is due to start in July, his solicitor said today.