Mr McGee, who was in his late seventies, passed away in the early hours of this morning.

On a day which promised so much, Patrick Mullins salvaged a single win from his four rides in Gowran Park yesterday as he closes in on Billy Parkinson’s record, set in 1915, for the number of winners ridden by an amateur in a calendar year.

NEW Limerick hurling manager Dave Keane faces the prospect of just one home Allianz League game in 2003, against Derry.