Paul Townend gave Macville a fine ride to prevail in the Greenmount Park Novice Hurdle at Limerick today.

THE Edward O’Grady trained Slieveardagh streaked away with the featured Batty O’Sullivan Fraydan Haulage Limited Handicap Hurdle at sun-drenched Killarney last night.

FOLLOWING a long period when his horses were out of form, John Murphy’s inmates are now simply flying and his Top Spin roared home to land a 25-1 shock in the valuable Kingdom Gold Cup Handicap at Killarney last night.

Quartino gave Jessica Harrington and Barry Geraghty a valuable prize when running out a ready winner of the Guinness Handicap Hurdle, the feature race at Listowel.

GARDAÍ are to monitor the activities of a notorious terrorist and criminal when he is released from prison next Monday.

IT began with an arson attack on a van by a teenager but escalated into twisted revenge that has so far led to the deaths of at least three people, possibly a fourth, and the jailing of a further seven.

GARDAÍ are bracing themselves for a renewal of a violent feud between the INLA and a criminal gang with the imminent release of two INLA men involved in a gruesome battle against the Dublin gang three years ago.

A man who gathered information for the dissident Republican group, the INLA has been jailed for four years by the Special Criminal Court.