The body which regulates horseracing in this country is to study the ramifications of a court judgement which yesterday saw former Irish Grand National and Royal Ascot winning-trainer Pat Hughes convicted of possessing unauthorised animal remedies.

An inquest into a sectarian IRA attack almost 40 years ago will take place next summer.

Relatives of a Protestant workman in the North gunned down in an IRA attack almost 40 years ago have accused the authorities of attempting to bury the truth.

A Limerick farmer was fined €3,000 and ordered to pay €2,000 in costs after he pleaded guilty to six breaches of Department of Agriculture regulations designed to prevent the spread of bovine TB.

THE county championship schedule winds a little closer to conclusion this weekend with a handful of finals and replays to be decided before the provincial campaigns can begin in earnest.

CLARE GAA chiefs are hopeful that a six month ban hanging over football manager John Kennedy will be backdated to allow him coach the Banner next season. Kennedy’s unusually stiff suspension from the Kerry County Board is due to go before a Munster Council meeting tonight on appeal.

The British government was today facing fresh calls in Northern Ireland to reopen investigations into unsolved murders in south Armagh during the Troubles.