* The IGB undertook to build its new flagship stadium in Limerick on the back of a gentleman’s agreement.

The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) faced down an internal revolt after quashing a positive drug test on a dog owned by one of the sport’s biggest backers.

A dog doping case exposed a range of irregularities in the system before the investigator said case closed, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

A security expert who protected one of the richest men in the world found a guard asleep on the job at JP McManus’s €100m home at Martinstown Stud, Co Limerick.

The richest ever greyhound competition in this country — outside of the Irish Derby — will be staged in Limerick next March, thanks to the generous sponsorship of JP and Noreen McManus.

You’d imagine JP McManus has spent much of his life hoping to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and yesterday at Cheltenham it all came right, when Tony McCoy brought the Jonjo O’Neill-trained Synchronised with an irresistible challenge to beat outsider The Giant Bolster and last year’s winner, Long Run.

YOUNG Tarbert trainer Patrick O’Connor secured the Leading Public Trainer title at Tralee on Tuesday night when he brought his season’s tally to 69 with a dazzling five-timer at the Kingdom Greyhound Supporters Club Festival Night Of Racing.

THE Morgiana Hurdle has cut up quite a bit which is a pity. It’s a real trappy race and I’m not quite sure what is going to make the running which is a bit of a worry as Oscars Well would like a proper pace.

FOOTBALL’S coming home for Limerick FC who are set to return to the Markets Field after an absence of some 30 years.

JP McManus and his family are helping many building workers get through the construction slump.

THE man behind the JP McManus golf classic in Adare yesterday gave a strong indication that Tiger Woods will honour his commitment to play at the event in July.

A TEAM of chefs will tomorrow prepare half a tonne of prime fillet beef for the 1,500 guests who will join JP and Noreen McManus to celebrate the marriage of their only daughter, Sue Ann.

ADARE Golf Club has been ranked number one golf resort in Ireland and number three after Turnberry and Gleneagles in the Scotland/Ireland category by Conde Nast readership poll in the US.

GRAEME MCDOWELL charged to the top of the leaderboard in the Dunhill Links Championship by equalling the course record of 62 at St Andrews yesterday.

THERE were trebles for jockey John Thomas McNamara and trainer Enda Bolger at a successful Limerick Harriers Hunt Point-to-Point at Lemonfield yesterday.