Sir Anthony Hopkins found himself with a share of a Classic Brit Award tonight after one of his compositions featured on the album of the year.

GORDON ELLIOTT and Paul Carberry doubled-up with Mae’s Choice and Al Dafa in Downpatrick yesterday.

The Icelandic singer is breaking new ground, releasing her seventh album, Biophilia, as a series of apps, writes Ian Forde

AIDAN O’Brien, fresh from a treble on Tuesday, took his tally for the two days to four when Liszt galloped his rivals silly in the featured Waste Disposal Ltd Handicap at Killarney last night.

ANOTHER weekend in Ireland where the emphasis is on quantity, and lots of it, with very little pretension towards quality.

MICK Kinane, John Oxx and Johnny Murtagh, three men with the Epsom Derby firmly on their minds, shared the honours at Fairyhouse last night.

FAME And Glory bids to confirm Ballysax Stakes form and enhance his Classic credentials in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown tomorrow.

AIDAN O’Brien provides six of the 12 entries for Sunday’s usually-informative Derrinstown Derby Trial at Leopardstown.

Aidan O’Brien’s Derby market mover Black Bear Island is among a clutch of Ballydoyle entries in this Sunday’s Prix Noailles at Longchamp.

JERED advertised his Smurfit Champion Hurdle credentials when outpointing Cork All Star in the Grade 3 Anglo Irish Bank Hurdle at Down Royal yesterday.

WELL done to the Greens on a successful annual convention. Sincere congratulations on real and substantial ministerial work well done. But therein lies the rub.

A THEORY that the so-called Piano Man is a French street musician has neither been proven nor discounted, and is one of 300 identities that are being investigated, his social worker said yesterday.