A collection of black and white images depicting a community through the 1960s to the 1980s has become a Facebook sensation in an east Cork town.

An East Cork film company wants people with memories of a former dance hall to assist them in the making of a new documentary.

The Tracey Collins-trained Indian Landing outclassed his rivals when justifying 7/4 favouritism and recording his third course and distance success in the Dundalk Stadium Light Up Your Night Handicap at Dundalk’s first meeting of 2015 last night.

Aidan O’Brien’s once-raced Royal Navy Ship is hard enough to oppose in the featured Group 3 Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon.

Willie McCreery is optimistic Colour Blue can further showcase her consistent streak when she runs in the Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney today.

Trainer Ralph Beckett is confident Epsom heroine Talent is in the best possible shape as she aims to complete the English-Irish Oaks double at the Curragh this evening.

Wayne Lordan, who finished second in the Derby on Galileo Rock, enjoyed a terrific afternoon at the Curragh on Saturday, booting home a treble.

PJ Hayes thought nothing of it at the time. Kids haven’t a clue what their future holds when they’re six and so, when his son said he wanted to be a jockey, PJ smiled and thought nothing more of it.

Australia secured their place in the Super Eight stage of the World Twenty20 with a 17-run Duckworth/Lewis victory over West Indies after rain curtailed play in Colombo.

Ireland’s sustainable farming methods can help build post-2015 trade with Russia, according to senior Bord Bia managers.

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, fresh from a reasonably successful Galway, turned their attention to Cork yesterday and duly combined to land the featured Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes with Sapphire.

Most punters wanted to be with Tommy Stack’s Queens Visit in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden at Clonmel last night and were proved right.

A group of East Cork music fans are dancing in the moonlight as an image of them attending a Thin Lizzy concert over 30 years ago has resurfaced as an album sleeve.

KEVIN Manning and Michael Hussey shared the riding honours when recording doubles at last night’s pre-Christmas meeting in Dundalk.

NORTHGATE, ridden by champion jockey Pat Smullen, romped to an impressive victory in Her Majesty’s Plate, feature of yesterday’s action at Down Royal.

CURRAGH trainer Paul Deegan took the training honours in Wexford last night, registering a fine double with Beauty Express in the Gorey Race and following-up with Belleau in the claimer.

RICKY PONTING believes Mitchell Johnson’s “unbelievable” spell of fast, swing bowling transformed not just the third Test but perhaps the entire Ashes series.

CAPTAIN Ricky Ponting rated Australia’s 36-run win over Pakistan in the second Test at the SCG among the most satisfying of his career.

Andrew Flintoff was appropriately involved in the pivotal moment as England bowled out Australia to reclaim the Ashes at the Oval today.

GRAEME SWANN urged against panic as England strive for victory today in the second npower Ashes Test at Lord’s.

JAMES ANDERSON revealed a desire not to waste their ‘get-out- of-jail’ card was behind England’s dominant display in the second npower Ashes Test at Lord’s yesterday.

MICHAEL CLARKE became the first dismissal under floodlights in Test cricket in Britain last night but only after boosting Australia’s position in the Ashes opener in Cardiff.

DERMOT WELD and Pat Smullen followed-up last Friday’s treble on the track with an ‘all-the-way’ double, achieved by Dreams Forever and Designated Decoy, at Dundalk last night.

DANNY MULLINS, the rising young star of flat racing, drove the Paul Cashman-trained 20-1 shot Glitter Baby to a decisive victory in the featured Guinness Handicap at Galway last night.

LITTLE went right for Jessica Harrington’s Jumbajukiba at Galway last week, but he was back on song with an impressive performance in the Listed Platinum Stakes at Cork yesterday.

TONY MARTIN’S Leg Spinner toyed with his rivals on the way to landing the williamhill.ie Handicap Hurdle at Galway yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

THE Dermot Weld-trained Loyal Focus foiled a big gamble on Essex in the GPT Handicap at the first stage of the Galway Festival last night.

KIEREN FALLON may have missed Royal Ascot, but he gained a modicum of compensation when guiding Honolulu to victory in the McInerney Homes Martin Molony Stakes before a big crowd at Limerick last night.

Matthew Hayden’s second World Cup hundred in four days helped to put Australia in a dominant position in their rain-interrupted Super Eight match against West Indies.

Matthew Hayden’s second successive World Cup hundred powered Australia to 322 for six against West Indies, in the first Super Eight match at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

UNDERFIRE coach Duncan Fletcher has admitted he made selection blunders in choosing the England team for the disastrous Ashes series against Australia.

RUBY WALSH became the first jockey in history to ride the winner of the Guinness Kerry National three years in-a-row when guiding Bothar Na to a smooth success in the traditional feature of the Listowel Festival yesterday.

LE LEOPARD is proving a tremendous money-spinner for the Dermot Weld stable this summer and completed a fine hat-trick in the Eastwood Bookmakers.Com Race at Downpatrick yesterday.

EDDIE HALES, based at Dundrum, Co Tipperary and one of the more colourful characters in the game, enjoyed a welcome turn when Public Reaction sprang a 16-1 surprise in the two mile October Race at Thurles yesterday.

BLUE CORRIG, carrying the colours of the late Dick Forristal, recorded a shock win in the listed Ardilaun House Hotel Oyster Stakes at Galway yesterday.

THE David Wachman trained Heatseeker, a son of Giant's Causeway, made it two from two with a decent effort in the Irish Stallion aFarms' EBF Race at Tipperary last night.

TRAINER Jim Bolger and his stable jockey and son-in-law Kevin Manning were on the mark at Fairyhouse last night when Back To Paris landed a tidy gamble in the Herbertstown Handicap.

SOLSKJAER, enterprisingly ridden by Seamus Heffernan, landed the listed Heritage Stakes for Aidan O’Brien at Leopardstown yesterday.

YOUGHAL rounded off 2004 with an inaugural award ceremony at the track recently.

TOM MULLINS, the latest of the Mullins dynasty to join the training ranks, saddled his first Tramore winner last night when Bob What took the Tom Murphy Car Sales Mercedes Benz Handicap Chase.

RORY CLEARY, fresh from finishing top flat jockey jockey at the Galway Festival, was on the mark again at Tipperary last night when guiding Nic’s Colleen to a smooth success in the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Handicap.

One of four former public schoolboys tried in connection the death of an 18-year-old student was cleared today of manslaughter.

The jury in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict on any charge on day-31 of the hearing.