"He’s the real article. You just don’t do that to a Corn na Feile winner here at Clonmel," was co-commentator Damien Lonergan’s summation of the third-round course in which Timber House annihilated kennel companion Serene Angel to earn a place in this afternoon’s quarter-finals of the Boylesports.com Coursing Derby at Powerstown Park.

The decisive moments in the National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel will take place on Powerstown Park this afternoon but with two days completed, it already feels like a success for the Irish Coursing Club.

THE world of Irish rugby put aside thoughts of next Saturday’s Munster-Leinster match yesterday as it celebrated the life of the late Irish and Lions captain, Karl Mullen, who died last Sunday aged 82.