If Britons vote as expected to retain their EU membership card on June 23, then sterling would gain 4% on the dollar in the immediate aftermath of the referendum, a Reuters poll has found.

Trainer Phil McEntee, now based in Newmarket, made a successful and emotional return to Laytown yesterday when Putin won the opening Download The At The Races App Handicap.

Sterling powered to its strongest in seven and a half years against a trade-weighted basket of currencies yesterday as higher-than expected UK inflation data bolstered bets that the Bank of England will raise interest rates in the coming months.

Stocks in the US have fallen broadly following drops in overseas markets as Greeks voted to reject creditor conditions for more loans, but the losses were not as steep as many had feared.

Convergence captured the listed Patton Stakes for Ger Lyons and Colin Keane in Dundalk last night, denying favourite War Envoy, Ryan Moore’s first ride on the track, by a length.

War Envoy might make Ryan Moore’s first visit to Dundalk worthwhile by landing the listed Patton Stakes tonight.

The progressive can get off the mark at the fourth attempt in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Down Royal tonight.

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen continued their terrific season when Edelmira landed the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes at Cork last night.

The Michael Halford-trained Warbird, second to Aidan O’Brien’s Illinois at Tipperary last time, opened his account when producing a gutsy display to foil another Ballydoyle colt Craftsman in the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden in Gowran Park yesterday.

The Tipperary Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Lisronagh on Saturday afternoon brought new meaning to the phrase ‘marathon’ for the fixture saw some 175 horses participating on a 12-race card with proceedings drawing to a close at 7.45pm following a 2.30pm start.

The people of one of Cork’s most historic communities are taking to the streets as part of a fight to retain their post office.

On a day which saw Ruby Walsh double-up on The Folkes Choice and Devil’s Elbow, the Tony Mullins-trained Clarach booked her ticket to the Guinness Galway Hurdle when coasting to a comfortable victory over the Walsh-ridden Pires in the Adare Festival Weekend Rated Hurdle in Limerick yesterday.

The Ted Walsh-trained Battlefront cemented his position as this season’s champion point-to-pointer by destroying the opposition in the ladies open at the first session of the Ormond Foxhounds meeting at Ballingarry, Co Tipperary yesterday.

Italy’s borrowing rates hit a new euro-era high today as a global market sell-off reignited fears that the debt crisis will engulf the eurozone’s third-largest economy.

A man who allowed a three-year-old girl to smoke cigarettes was today jailed for 18 months.

The US dollar hit an 11-year low against the pound today as dealers fretted over the direction of monetary policy in the world’s biggest economy.