Deal Done, the best backed horse in the contest, continued the terrific run of Bryan Cooper and Dessie Hughes when landing the Wilderness Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

Fears are growing for the safety of two people who have separately been reported missing in the Midlands in recent days.

Gardaí in Kildare say they are gravely concerned for the welfare of the missing teenager Cormac Clare.

Ruby Walsh made a triumphant return to race-riding at Listowel yesterday, when driving long odds-on Rattan to a last-gasp success in the Kerrymaid Hurdle.

Davy Russell will remember yesterday’s meeting at Tramore, but for all of the wrong reasons.

FEATURE event at Cork yesterday was the Imperial Call Chase, but this was a Grade 3 in name only after a really pathetic response by trainers.

Edward O’Grady’s Out Now is the choice in what looks a wickedly difficult to solve Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

Carrigeen Lechuga, successful at the track two weeks earlier, followed up with a fine display in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Mares’ Novice Chase at Thurles yesterday.

CHARLIE SWAN’S Stephanie Kate made a successful return to flights when producing a fine display in the Munster Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

THE Gigginstown House Stud success story continued at Limerick yesterday when Gift Of Dgab made an excellent debut over fences in the Askeaton Beginners Chase.

TRANQUIL SEA, winner of the race a year earlier, duly outclassed his three rivals in the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

HENRY de Bromhead continued his terrific start to the season when saddling 40-1 shot Case Jove, almost 190-1 on the tote, to land the Cashel Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

THE John Morrison-trained Much Acclaimed has to be one of the best bargains ever picked up at the sales.

WHEN Moon Dice won his maiden hurdle at Limerick a year ago trainer, Paul Flynn, described him as the best he’d ever had.

FOLLOWING much soul-searching the logical conclusion to be drawn is that The Real Article is the most likely winner of this afternoon’s Guinness Galway Hurdle.

EDWARD O’GRADY’S The Real Article is free to contest the Galway Hurdle on Thursday.

REMEMBER a horse called Ballyronan Boy, who was nabbed by the Tipperary stewards in May of last year?

THE Turf Club announced yesterday that the Referrals Committee has been asked to review the failure of the stewards to impose a sanction, following the running of the Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle at Tipperary last Sunday.

HIGHLIGHT of the weekend in Ireland is the Grade 2 boylesports.com Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown tomorrow, which promises a decent contest between Big Zeb, Sizing Europe and Golden Silver.

THE Oliver McKiernan-trained Follow The Plan was a shock 25-1 winner of the Grade 2 Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday.

HURRICANE FLY, currently a top-priced 5-1 second favourite behind Binocular for the Stan James Champion Hurdle, can give his Cheltenham prospects a major boost by landing the BHP Insurances sponsored Irish equivalent at Leopardstown tomorrow.

HELLO BUD was a gallant winner for the father and son team of Nigel and Sam Twiston-Davies in an eventful race for the totesport.com Becher Handicap Chase over the Grand National fences at Aintree yesterday.

Hello Bud was a gallant winner for the father and son team of Nigel and Sam Twiston-Davies in an eventful race for the totesport.com Becher Handicap Chase over the Grand National fences at Aintree.

BELORD, having only a second outing for John Joe Walsh, was much too good for the opposition in the Winter Wonderland Maiden Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

ONCE-RACED Alderwood is the nap choice to land the Bumper for Tom Mullins at Clonmel this afternoon.

CRUISING KATIE, the only horse Richard Cotter from Ballynoe, Co Cork, has in training did him proud when taking the Greenmount Annual Members’ Novice Chase at Limerick yesterday.

THE Town And District Chase at Tipperary last night was robbed of much of its interest due to the defection of Cuan Na Grai with a stone bruise.

FORMER Kildare senior footballer, Willie McCreery, is rapidly making a name for himself as a trainer.

JOHN KIELY’S Oneeightofamile, whose previous claim to fame was winning a Dundalk bumper, could hardly have been more impressive in the Lynch and Partners’ (Solicitors) Maiden at Clonmel last night.

A Longford resident has been given a five-year sentence for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family.

A Longford resident is to be sentenced later this week for possessing part of a €7.66m bank heist following the tiger kidnapping of a bank employee, his girlfriend and her family last year.

THE enigmatic, but talented, Watson Lake was on a going day at Clonmel yesterday, finding enough for the inspired Paul Carberry to win the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase.

THE Margaret O’Sullivan-trained Oscar Delta confirmed the positive impression he created when shedding his maiden tag at Ballindenisk in December by landing a very competitive renewal of the winners of one at the Carbery Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Kilpatrick yesterday.

WHATEVER NEXT (6/1) lit up yesterday's Knockanard point-to-point by registering a hugely-impressive debut success in the first division of the five-year-old geldings' maiden.

A senior lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons has told a jury that, according to witness statements, a nurse accused of poisoning two elderly patients injected the patients in an inappropriate manner.