Noel Fehily brings down the curtain on a fine career today and the man from Dunmanway can bow out in style by steering Get In the Queue to victory in the Goffs UK Spring Sale Bumper at Newbury.

One of two men charged in relation to the violent death of a Latvian national in Carlow earlier in the week replied with the word "guilty" when the charge was put to him by gardaí, a court has heard.

According to football lore, the goalkeeping position is the loneliest place on the pitch. Maybe Joseph Farrell, Ireland’s No 1 at the recent Homeless World Cup, knew about it.