Champion jockey Paul Carberry ended the year with a well-executed double at Punchestown to enhance his good strike-rate since resuming after injury last Friday.

THE director of an amusement park in which a 16-year-old was fatally injured on Sunday has promised to comply with a full health and safety and garda probe into the tragedy.

JOHNNY Murtagh's decision to bypass Cork, in favour of Naas, saw Fran Berry grab the opportunity with both hands and land the featured King Charlemagne Stakes on Miss Honorine at the southern venue yesterday.

A leading member of a dissident Irish Republican political group was bombarded with phone calls and letters by a fellow activist in a bitter feud over child sex accusations, a court heard today.