The Highway 6 have pleaded with the filling station landlord to help end their week-old sit-in after securing a major breakthrough yesterday.

Princess Highway, successful in the race a year ago, gets the vote to again win the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Blue Wind Stakes at Naas tonight.

Princess Highway will attempt to emulate her dam Irresistible Jewel in Royal Ascot’s Ribblesdale Stakes following a convincing win in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms Blue Wind Stakes in Naas.

Edward O’Grady, the leading Irish trainer at the Cheltenham Festival, stamped his mark on the track four months earlier than usual as Tranquil Sea ended Ireland’s barren stretch in the Paddy Power Gold Cup.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is taking a well-earned break floating along the Nile on a dhow to discuss tactics and the riddle of the diamond with the Sphinx. So for the next few weeks we’ve called Allan Prosser from the subs’ bench to mediate over your opinions and give the controversy pot a stir.