The fate of this year's All Ireland Football Champions could rest with a psychic calf.

NOTE: A correction to this article is published at the end of the text.

Dermot Weld celebrated his 65th birthday in style in Galway yesterday by hammering the bookies early on.

It was a day of firsts at Croke Park yesterday.

Bookmaking firms were last night celebrating Galway’s Leinster SHC final victory over Kilkenny.

TG4 will screen a preview of the Punchestown Irish National Hunt Racing Festival tonight at 9.30pm.

CORK’S exit from the All-Ireland championship last night was welcome news for bookmakers recovering from a bad week at the Galway Races.

AFTER taking a hosing from the bookies on Monday, punters were hoping for better fortunes at a sun-drenched Ballybrit yesterday.

DIAMOND HARRY has been ruled out of the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

BOYLESPORTS yesterday decided to pay out on Big Buck’s, the warm favourite for the World Hurdle at next month’s Cheltenham Festival.

BOYLESPORTS.com yesterday announced that they will refund bets on second placed horses in the first four races of the Cheltenham Festival, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, Arkle Trophy, Festival Handicap Chase and Champion Hurdle, on bets placed with Boyleports.com and with the firm over the phone.

An Irish bookmaker has this evening suspended betting on Micheál Martin becoming Fianna Fáil leader before the General Election.

BOOKIES were jumping for joy in Ballybrit as a rank outsider ridden by the legendary Tony McCoy raced home to win the Galway Plate.

SOME of the country’s leading bookmaking firms are paying out on both Louth and Meath winning yesterday’s Leinster SFC final.

FATBOYZ Tyson, trained by Pat Gordon in Enniscorthy, is the 11-4 favourite with the sponsors for the Boylesports International to be run at Dundalk on Monday night next.

CORK aren’t the only ones counting the cost of Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC final defeat to Kerry.

AFTER a long week of winners and losers and Ladies madness, it was a far quieter affair at Ballybrit yesterday.

PATSY Byrne’s Ballymac Ruso is the 2-1 favourite to win the Boylesports International at Dundalk on Sunday following College Causeway’s withdrawal shortly before the draw was made by Boylesports’ representative Leon Blanche at lunchtime yesterday.

LAST Saturday bookmakers Paddy Power and Boylesports did something which barely got a mention in the press, but surely merited a lot more in the way of publicity.

Tiger Woods and his wife Elin have announced the birth of their second child, a boy named Charlie Axel.

Agreement has been reached to reschedule the Boylesports.com International at Ascot on Saturday.

TYRONE supporters aren’t the only ones celebrating the All-Ireland success of Mickey Harte’s squad.

THIS will be an All-Ireland football final with bite the day old scores may be settled.

MUNSTER have been installed as favourites to retain their Heineken Cup title next May with thousands of euro placed on Paul O’Connell’s side since Saturday’s victory over French giants, Toulouse.

BOOKMAKING giant Boylesports will refund all bets on Cork to win the Munster or All-Ireland senior titles.

DAVID Pipe has his fingers crossed the forecast dry week materialises to give Abragante a leading chance in Saturday’s Boylesports.com Gold Cup at Cheltenham.

MICHAEL FOLEY has won the Boylesports Irish Sports Book of the Year Award for ‘Kings of September’, his account of the 1982 All-Ireland football final in which Offaly foiled Kerry’s bid for a historic five-in-a-row.

A LUCKY Boylesports customer in the Mill Road shop in Midleton, Co Cork, is today €55,904.63 richer after a €20 each way accumulator on four different horses netted him the big windfall.