It was all systems go yesterday at both the unaffiliated Millstreet Horse Show All-Ireland Championships in Co Cork and the Showjumping Ireland National Championships in Co Kildare.

A HIGH-PROFILE FAI delegation led by chief executive John Delaney will be on Foyleside this morning to consult with concerned prominent members of the local business community to discuss the next way possible forward for League of Ireland’s expelled side Derry City.

DERRY CITY chairman Pat McDaid last night sensationally quit his post at the Brandywell and also leaving the club will be fellow directors Joe Doherty, Peter Leonard and Frank Houston.

ALAN MULHOLLAND, who led Galway to their sixth All-Ireland minor football title in 2007, will tonight be appointed manager of the county’s U21 side for next season.

Malachy O'Rourke has predictably been ratified to continue as Fermanagh senior football manager after an impressive first season in charge.

The parents of a teenage girl killed in a horrific multi-death car accident in Co Fermanagh were tonight trying to come to terms with the shock of discovering they had buried the wrong person.

The funerals of two young people killed in a car crash in Co Fermanagh over the weekend will take place today.

The four young people who died when their car smashed into a tree in Co Fermanagh have been named.

INTERNATIONAL show jumper Robert Splaine yesterday said the drug testing procedure at Irish shows needs a serious review, following his experiences at Ennis last month.

KEVIN BABINGTON pauses — he is reluctant to talk about Cian O’Connor.

THE NISSAN Irish Open Championship received a significant boost yesterday with the confirmation that Jesper Parnevik and Luke Donald will both be in the field at Co Louth Golf Club, Baltray, on July 22-25.

EDWARD DOYLE, one of the riders involved in a row with the Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) over the sacking of Olympic team trainer Eddie Macken, last night said he was disappointed at the lack of official response to a letter outlining their grievances.

THE announcement of Eddie Macken as Olympic team trainer by the Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) selectors this week, will, hopefully, bring the curtain down on the unfortunate controversy that had sprung up around the position.

A NOTE of disharmony emerged this week in the Olympic show jumping camp, with some of the long-list of riders ensuring Eddie Macken was installed as team trainer in place of original choice Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Mullins.

WITH the Olympic year in the offing, chief show jumping selector Peter Leonard is confident Ireland can produce the goods and win the country’s first gold medal in the code.

THE Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) selectors have made the prudent decision to nominate Trevor Coyle ahead of Jessica Kürten for the Gothenburg World Cup Show in Sweden next week.

NEWLY-ELECTED Show Jumping Association of Ireland (SJAI) chairman Charles Hanley has poured cold water on efforts to re-ignite plans for a unified equestrianism body.