An auditor has told a tribunal how he was “appalled” when he realised that a fellow accountant was involved in falsifying the accounts of the Irish Coursing Club.

An accountant with the Irish Coursing Club was fired for involvement in a “cover-up” which allowed a former club CEO to spend funds on his own “personal lifestyle”, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has heard.

An accountant with a national sporting body was dismissed because of alleged “misappropriation of funds” and “falsification of accounts,” the Employment Appeals Tribunal has been told.

Tony Carey beat Tony Dunlea by two bowls in the Munster veteran final at Kilcorney on Monday to set up an All-Ireland final meeting with Oliver Gribben, who retained his Ulster title on the same evening.

ON the sort of windswept afternoon only a jump racing fan could endure, a horse owned by a Limerick farmer in partnership with a Kildare businessman made the headlines in Clonmel.

ON 17 April, we published an article under the heading "Coursing Club ex boss released by Gardaí".

THE former chief executive of the Irish Coursing Club (ICC) has been released without charge, following his arrest on Thursday, and a file is being prepared for the DPP.

Diarmuid O’Flynn talks to retiring ICC Chief Executive Jerry Desmond, who for the last 22 years has overseen the running of the minority sport.

THE anticipated mass protest by animal rights activists failed to materialise at the National Coursing meeting yesterday, with about 30 campaigners picketing outside the Clonmel venue during the climax of the annual hare-coursing gala.

REPRESENTATIVES of animal protection groups will today protest at the finals of the national coursing meeting in Clonmel.

THOUSANDS of fans from home and abroad gathered in a sporting venue for the top meeting of its kind, and not a prawn sandwich in sight. It must be the coursing.

THOUSANDS of hare coursing fans are due to descend on Tipperary for the annual three-day national championships.

Thousands of hare coursing fans are due to descend on Ireland for the annual three-day national championships.

ANTI-BLOOD sports campaigners are planning to mount protests at next month’s national coursing meeting in Clonmel for the first time in more than a decade.

Tipperary will become the Mecca for hare coursing fans during the next three days.

SPORTS Minister John O'Donoghue has announced the appointment of three new members to the Board of Horse Racing Ireland - Michael Doyle, Michael Murphy and James Nicholson.

FILM star and former soccer ace Vinnie Jones will be summoned to a hearing in Co Tipperary next month to explain why his coursing greyhound tested positive for drugs.

County Tipperary became the Mecca for hare coursing fans from around the world today as the 81st annual Irish meeting got under way.

JERRY DESMOND, Chief Executive of the Irish Coursing Club, was awarded a prestigious ‘Lifetime Commitment’ award by Irish Country Sports and Country Life (ICS&CL) magazine, at an awards ceremony in Shane’s Castle, Co. Antrim, recently.

THE ALREADY booming horse racing industry received another boost yesterday when Sports Minister John O’Donoghue announced a €200m fund for the upgrading of racecourses.

HORSE Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses have concluded a media rights contract with At The Races.

Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses have concluded a media rights contract with At The Races.

Trainer Michael Hourigan has issued an upbeat report ahead of Beef Or Salmon’s seasonal reappearance in the Clonmel Oil Chase tomorrow.

EDREDON BLEU is on course to clash with Irish star Beef Or Salmon in what is shaping up to be an exciting renewal of the Clonmel Oil Chase on Thursday.

Connections of Edredon Bleu are looking forward to taking on Irish star Beef Or Salmon in a potentially cracking renewal of the Clonmel Oil Chase on Thursday.

A LOBBY group yesterday impressed on TDs from a number of parties the importance of traditional sports, such as angling, coursing and shooting in rural life.

IT is three months since the coverage of Irish racing on the now defunct Racing Channel, much loved by many of us, was halted.

FORMER Fine Gael T.D, Liam Burke and his co-owner, Mossie Barry, received a tremendous welcome when the arrived home in Cork on the Manchester flight yesterday afternoon with the Waterloo Cup, following their success in the prestigious coursing event at Altcar the previous day with their bitch Henrietta.

THE Racing Channel, which had become hugely popular in Ireland and is owned by US sports broadcaster TRNI, is to close.