The Dr Joe O’Keeffe-owned/trained Hard Station lit up yesterday’s Killeady Harriers point-to-point meeting at Ballyarthur by making all the running with John Barry in the winners of one.

All roads led to Conna yesterday for the annual Tallow point-to-point meeting and Mulcahys Hill lit up the meeting by posting a scintillating frontrunning performance for the in-form Martin Hassett stable to claim victory in the four-year-old maiden.

THE Government is to be asked to implement “closer monitoring” of the country’s fishing fleet for safety purposes after an inquest heard that the alarm wasn’t raised for several hours after a fishing boat sank about two years ago.