"It is with a heavy heart I have to report that Sizing John will miss the Cheltenham Gold Cup."

Alan Potts: mining expert and Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning owner of Sizing John

Frontrunners at breakfast, dirt-trackers by brunch.

The Ireland team bidding to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup are planning to make tickets 30% cheaper than those that were on offer for the last tournament in England.

See how you fared with the weekend’s golf fixtures.

Fox Norton followed up his Aintree success by taking the scalp of Un De Sceaux in the BoyleSports Champion Chase at Punchestown.

Eight more people, including a 15-year-old boy, have appeared in court in England over a suspected hate attack which left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life.

Six more people including a 15-year-old boy have been charged over a suspected hate attack which left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life.

Kurdish Iranian Reker Ahmed, 17, was chased and subjected to what police described as a "brutal attack" after a group of people discovered he was an asylum seeker.

Here are the top three films you don’t want to miss this week, writes Declan Burke.

Tommy Lyons takes a look at the recent victory of Sizing John and the opportunities that lie ahead.

Ireland’s bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup may yet force the GAA to abandon its traditional slot for that year’s All-Ireland football final.

Seán Potts has had a front row seat for the GPA’s journey from the margins to a seat at the table in Croke Park. There’s been setbacks, turbulent episodes and cheap shots along the way — and there’s probably more to come. But he’s saying farewell to an established inter-county players’ voice now...

Just who did they speak to when they decided who they were speaking for?

Kerry 1-24 Derry 2-10: Peter Keane hailed the growing maturity of his young Kerry stars as they booked a place in the Electric Ireland All-Ireland MFC semi-finals.

Ok so Disney is releasing a new take on Beauty and the Beast in a live action musical starring Emma Watson as Belle. The first teaser is here.

The success of Disney's live action Cinderella and The Jungle Book for the big screen has started a new trend at the house of mouse - remaking its classic animated films with real actors and stuff.

St Brendan’s Killarney (Kerry) 4-15 St Benildus College (Dublin) 0-9

A 23-year-old Ukrainian national has been arrested in the US after allegedly posing as a high school student for the past four years.

Aoife Lane has just completed a year as head of the Women’s Gaelic Players Association. Twelve months of lessons learned. How has it been?

GPA chiefs insist their radical football championship blueprint should not be ignored by Croke Park bosses.

Rejection in any form is a wretch. The GPA are no strangers to it having been outside the GAA tent for so long. But denial is a relatively new experience now that they are inside it.

Jockey Jonathan Burke emulated his father, and trainer Henry de Bromhead avenged his father’s narrow defeat when they combined to land yesterday’s Thetote.com Galway Plate with Shanahan’s Turn.

British supermarket Morrisons has been saved at the last minute from being kicked out of London’s blue chip index after its first rise in sales for nearly 18 months sent shares surging.

St Brendan’s College, Killarney 1-13, Tralee CBS1-9:

When pushed on it afterwards, Aogán Ó Fearghail insisted he was referring to himself more than anybody else, writes John Fogarty.

A motion relating to concussion has been referred to the GAA’s Scientific and Welfare concussion, after a strong debate at GAA Congress in Cavan this morning.

Ante-post favourite Sign Of A Victory is set to miss The Ladbroke at Ascot on Saturday because of the rain-softened ground.

Dethroned at Cheltenham last March and beaten again by his arch-rival at the Punchestown Festival, former dual-champion Hurricane Fly turned the tables on reigning champion Jezki in the Grade 1 Stanjames.com Morgiana Hurdle in Puncehstown yesterday.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 8 in the Premier League.

Five American Bulldogs being walked by their owner who lost an arm when he was mauled last month were not on leads when they seriously injured a dog walker, police in England have said.

The Gaelic Players Association communications chief, Sean Potts, has hit back at Colm O’Rourke’s criticism of the player body, revealing that the GPA consulted the Kerry and Mayo squads when their All-Ireland semi-final replay was controversially moved to Limerick.

GPA head of communications Sean Potts revealed yesterday that the player organisation will release a "very hard-hitting" report on player burn-out in the coming weeks, reports Michael Moynihan

Paul Potts covered a Foo Fighters song on his new album to please his wife.

Jonathan Burke made the perfect start in his new role as Alan and Ann Potts’ retained jockey when partnering the Henry de Bromhead-trained Loosen My Load to a convincing win in the Ryans Cleaning Chase in Galway yesterday.

Jonathan Burke has been appointed first jockey to one of the biggest owners of National Hunt horses in this country, Alan and Ann Potts, replacing Andrew Lynch.

GAA fans have been asked to think twice before making hard hitting personal criticisms of players as the football and hurling championships gravitate towards Croke Park and the levels of expectation increase.

The GPA have described the online criticism of Cork’s footballers on Sunday as "beneath contempt".