Solicitor Patsy Gallagher was speaking at Falcarragh District in Co Donegal after his client had been charged with handling 35 stolen lambs.

The family of missing man Michael Cullen has made an emotional appeal for his return.

Police in the North are appealing for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of a 33-year-old man.

An unfaithful wife with "a temper like The Hulk" had her throat cut during a furious row with her estranged husband about his new girlfriend, a court in England has heard.

The intricacies of a farmyard lane network proved to be a major factor in the Carbery Navigation Trial in Leap in West Cork where the Ovens/Drinagh duo of Donal Healy/Denis O’Donovan (Toyota Starlet) triumphed to move into the lead of the Munster Navigation Trial Championship.

Tomorrow night’s Carbery Navigation Trial in Leap in West Cork is the second round of the Munster Navigation Trial Championship. Local crews will be expected to dominate the 115km event although Limerick’s Alan Shinnors and George Shinnors (Subaru), who won last week’s Cork Startrek Navigation Trial, should again be to the forefront.

The most prestigious award in Irish motor racing, the Leinster Trophy, awaits the winner of Sunday’s Formula Ford race in Mondello Park. Drivers like John Watson, Eddie Jordan, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen have all lifted the famous trophy at the Kildare venue and on Sunday Meath’s Stephen Daly will be hoping to retain the trophy for another 12 months.

St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin has been heavily criticised by the Oireachtas Health Committee for failing to appear before it in relation to serious allegations about its procurement practices.

All season long Donagh Kelly (Ford Focus WRC) has been a consistent barometer of pace in the Triton Showers National Rally Championship. 

Craig Breen strengthened his position at the top of the European Rally Championship with his third straight win in the series.

Having set the fastest time on the qualifying stage for the SATA Rallye Acores, round four of the European Rally Championship, Craig Breen and co-driver Scott Martin on board their Peugeot Rally Academy 208 T16 brought that form through last evening’s opening three stages to lead the event.

Dominant through the opening stage, Cork’s Denis Moynihan and his Kerry co-driver Ger Conway in their Airflow Services/Daikin backed Mk 1 Ford Escort went on to take a deserved victory in the Rentokil-Initial Killarney Historic Rally, the first round of the 2015 Clonakilty Blackpudding Irish Historic Championship.

 Esther N McCarthy picks tactile fabrics, tasty tones for autumn and some great arts and crafts    

Esther N McCarthy digs some retro vibes, hails the love affair between form and function and gives a shout out to our feathered friends.

One of the more interesting horses in training right now is Willie Mullins’ Clondaw Warrrior.

Triskel Christchurch is preparing for a temporary takeover of its visual art offerings by John P Quinlan, the figure behind the establishment of the Vangard Gallery in Macroom in 1991.

A man who dedicated his life to raising his young family after his wife died from ovarian cancer three years ago was named father of the year yesterday.

The Dublin-based stockbroking firm NCB has been renamed as Investec following its acquisition one year ago.

Willie Mullins ended his Punchestown Festival on a high as he claimed the final two Grade Ones of the week to take his tally for the meeting to 13 winners.

Sizing Australia (12-1) denied Enda Bolger’s Zest For Life a second win at the Punchestown Festival by the narrowest of margins in the Irish Field Chase.

Bright New Dawn justified favouritism in the Grade 2 boylesports.com Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday, but the race was marred by the fatal fall of Venture Capital.

There was just one race meeting in this country yesterday and that was the Ballinaboola point-to-point fixture which took place under the auspices of the Wexford Foxhounds.

Jack B Yeats, Leo Whelan, Roderic O’Conor, Tony O’Malley, Patrick Scott, Harry Kernoff and Gerald Dillon are among a roll call of leading Irish artists whose work will feature at Whyte’s sale of Irish and British art at the RDS in Dublin next Monday (Oct 1) at 6pm.

Investec has agreed to buy Irish unlisted broker and wealth manager NCB for €32 million as part of the South African bank’s strategy to cut its reliance on traditional lending.

Investec, the international specialist bank and asset manager, has bought NCB, one of Ireland’s leading financial services groups, for €32.3m.

DESSIE Hughes is hoping Roberto Goldback’s touch of class will see him through in the Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles today.

Exhibition at CIT Wandesford Quay contrasts classical realist drawing with contemporary practices,says Carl Dixon

THE medical group, whose plans to co-locate private hospitals alongside public facilities are in jeopardy because of the VHI’s refusal to provide cover, has called for the private health insurer to be forced to the table.

TOMMY STACK’S Magen’s Star is the nap choice to run her rivals ragged in the Kilsheelan Mares’ Novice Hurdle at Clonmel this afternoon.

CUCHULAINS SON, disappointing at Punchestown, appears to have found his level in the Treacy’s Pharmacy Hurdle at Ballinrobe tonight and gets the nap.

I’M at Cheltenham today for four rides for Paul Nicholls, on what is probably best described as a low-profile meeting by the high standards of that great track.

THE HSE has said there are no concerns over the financial stability of its controversial co-location plans, despite admitting discussions are continuing over whether banks have the resources to fund the projects.

AN Bord Pleanála is under fire for giving the green light for a private hospital next to Cork University Hospital (CUH) against the advice of one of its own inspectors.

AFTER this dramatic finale to yesterday’s Munster football championship semi-final in Fitzgerald Stadium – when a Bryan Sheehan free earned Kerry a replay in the third minute of injury time – the big question supporters from both sides were asking themselves was how holders Cork failed to win a game they dominated for long periods.

Investec Ireland, part of the international specialist banking group Investec plc has today announced profits before tax for the year to March 31, 2009, of €36m.

THE Christy Roche-trained Clarkey got off the mark at the 13th time of asking when taking the Holy Cross Maiden Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

RUBY WALSH and Willie Mullins continued in irresistible form when sharing a treble at Navan yesterday, scoring with odds-on shots Lilywhitedancer and Barker and marker-drifter Palace Merano, which needed all of Walsh’s strength to land the Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle.

Wall Street’s overnight freefall sent Asian stock markets tumbling sharply today as investors were gripped with fears of a global financial crisis.

Jump racing’s dream team combined to good effect once again as well-backed favourite Oslot landed the William Hill Galway Plate.

Jessica Harrington notched her first winner of the week as Desert Abbey battled to victory in the William Hill In Ireland Novice Hurdle at Galway.

Time Electric failed to live up to his tall reputation as he finished well out of the places in the Athlumney (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race at Navan.

FRONTLINE staff in Cork’s proposed co-location hospital will be barred from parking on site.

THE co-location hospital plan for Cork is a “win-win situation” for patients and the State, said the man behind the project last night.