Joan Henchy insists that ‘gender is not an issue’ after she was elected as the first female chairperson of New York GAA.

The Leitrim footballers will always fear losing to New York, selector Seamus Quinn has admitted.

Imperial Shabra received the loudest cheer of the afternoon at Stratford after claiming the Alice’s Noodle Bar Novices’ Handicap Chase – but the decibel level would have been considerably higher had Oliver Brady been present.