Long-time Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins will aim for his fifth M Donnelly All-Ireland Poc Fada title and fourth in succession when he takes to the Annaverna Mountain in Dundalk this Saturday.

IN a short few weeks Mossy Green will celebrate his 12th birthday, but showed at Thurles yesterday there is still plenty life left in Willie Mullins’ charge.

CHRISTY ROCHE’S Poc Fada has a leading chance in the Carrowholly Shell Fish Handicap Chase at Ballinrobe tonight.

MICHAEL HOURIGAN, a trainer who has not been slow to criticise jockeys in the past, described Paul Carberry as a “genius” after the brilliant rider had partnered the Limerick handler’s The Screamer to win the Smithwicks’ Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

LOUTH hurler Paul Dunne will defend his Poc Fada title in the Cooley Mountain tomorrow in one of the finest events in the history of the competition.