LEGENDARY Kerry trainer Pa Fitzgerald recorded his second J.P. McManus Irish Cup win in-a-row, and his sixth in all, when last season’s Boylesport Derby runner-up, Sandy Sea, landed the €80,000 winning prize for well- known owner Patsy Byrne (Duagh and London) at a well attended and highly successful Patrickswell meeting yesterday.

DROOPYS MALDINI and Grayslands Pixie were last night awarded the highest accolades in Irish greyhound racing when they were named the Dog and Bitch of the Year at the National Awards Banquet at the Keadeen Hotel in Newbridge.

HISTORY was made at New Ross yesterday when two coursing Derby winners clashed in the final of An Corn Ros Mhic Treoin.

BIG spender John O’Donoghue used €17,000 worth of Oireachtas staff time in his three-week campaign for re-election last year.

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