Hope springs eternal, and at the end of another superb National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel, why not?

THERE were the usual shocks in the opening session of the second round of the Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby at Shelbourne Park last night when Owen McKenna’s Farley Blitz ran out a decisive winner of what was expected to be a real cliffhanger.

TRAFFIC engineers representing Cork harbour residents said there will be more traffic jams from Indaver’s proposed incinerator than the company’s environmental impact analysis has predicted.

GARDAÍ are preparing a file for the Laois county coroner following the tragic death of a young man at the Electric Picnic concert at the weekend.