Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien is fighting a bid by Revenue to overturn a decision that he was not liable to pay nearly €57m in tax in Ireland around the same time he started living in Portugal.

DAVY Russell excelled on the Paul Nolan-trained favourite Moskova as she completed a hat-trick over fences in the Ashbourne Mares Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday.

GALWAY Hurdle hero Farmer Brown makes a quick reappearance in the Brompton Recruitment Ireland Race at Wexford this evening.

AIDAN O’BRIEN, yet to get off the mark for the season, could team up with Seamus Heffernan for a treble at Limerick today.

THE progressive Chomba Womba dug deep to land the Dawn Omega EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Laetitia made an impressive debut over fences with a faultless performance in the Bank Of Ireland EBF Mares Novice Chase at Limerick.

Dual Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace is a notable absentee in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran on Saturday.

ASIAN MAZE, Harchibald, Hardy Eustace and Macs Joy could clash at Gowran Park on Saturday in a high-class renewal of the Red Mills Trial Hurdle.

YOU would have to be forgiven for thinking that Beef Or Salmon will enjoy little more than a good school in the richly-endowed Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Mossbank bids to justify the faith of connections when he contests the €90,000 Barry & Sandra Kelly Memorial Novice Hurdle at Navan on Sunday.

MUST confess to mild surprise that Brave Inca wasn’t promoted to outright favouritism for the Champion Hurdle, following that performance at Punchestown on Sunday.

MICHAEL HOURIGAN went through an agonising twenty minutes or so at Cork on Saturday.

FEATHARD LADY maintained her unbeaten record with victory in the 30,000 Anglo Irish Bank Hurdle at Down Royal yesterday.

DUSTY SHEEHY, whose Justified turned in such a fine round of jumping to score first time up over fences at Punchestown last week, wasted no time getting among the winners at Clonmel yesterday when Ballyjohnboy Lord landed the Tipp FM Maiden Hurdle.

Amateur rider Michael Purcell was hit with a 50-day suspension and a €2,000 fine by the stewards at Cork on Sunday.

SABINE Dardenne was 12 when her 80-day rape ordeal in the house of Belgian paedophile and murderer Marc Dutroux began.

BELGIAN child rapist Marc Dutroux withdrew his ban on being photographed yesterday but lashed out at the media as his trial for a shocking spate of abductions, rapes and murders resumed for a second week.

Eliciting gasps of horror in the courtroom, Marc Dutroux took the stand today to describe how he kidnapped and raped young girls in the mid-1990s.

A man testifying at his own trial for kidnapping, abusing and killing young girls in the mid-1990s, said today he built and wired a secret cell in his basement for the victims on orders of a child-sex network operating in Belgium.

FORMER world number one Martina Hingis announced her retirement from top-flight tennis yesterday.