A competitive field of 11 runners at Fairyhouse will go to post for the Ballymore Properties Drinmore Novice Chase, headed by Paul Stafford’s Blueberry Boy.

SCHINDLERS HUNT looked a very smart novice chaser when he defeated what looked an above-average field in the Beginners Chase at Punchestown yesterday.

WILLIE MULLINS’ Missed That gave his Cheltenham prospects a major boost with a fine performance to win the Bailey’ Arkle Perpetual Cup at Leopardstown yesterday.

TERRI Schiavo’s husband buried her cremated remains, inscribing on her bronze grave marker “I kept my promise”.

Terri Schiavo’s husband buried her cremated remains, inscribing on her bronze grave marker: “I kept my promise.”

AN autopsy that found Terri Schiavo suffered from severe and irreversible brain damage has done nothing to sway her parents’ belief that she deserved to live and may have recovered.

AN autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said yesterday.

The lawyer for Terri Schiavo’s husband says he’s confident the long-awaited autopsy report on the brain-damaged woman will show no evidence she was abused before she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state.

PROTESTERS were gone yesterday from the hospice where Terri Schiavo died, but the feud between her parents and husband raged, with the families planning separate funerals.

THE extraordinary race to save Terri Schiavo’s life reached a tragic but inevitable end yesterday when she died after 13 days without food or water.

TERRI SCHIAVO, the severely brain-damaged Florida woman who spent 15 years connected to a feeding tube in an epic legal and medical battle that went all the way to the White House and Congress, died yesterday.

The death of Terri Schiavo, who died after being in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, was met with an outpouring of grief in the US tonight.

A US federal appeals court raised a flicker of hope for the parents of brain dead Terri Schiavo, but snuffed it out by firmly declining to intervene in the gruelling legal battle.

A FEDERAL appeals court agreed to consider an emergency bid by Terri Schiavo’s parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect her feeding tube, raising their fading hopes of keeping the severely brain-damaged woman alive.

A federal appeals court has this morning agreed to consider a petition by Terri Schiavo’s parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect their severely brain-damaged daughter’s feeding tube.

THE husband of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo has ordered an autopsy after she dies to silence allegations his plan to cremate her body is aimed at hiding something, his lawyer said yesterday.

TERRI SCHIAVO'S parents know their brain-damaged daughter is dying and are "dealing with reality", a family spokesman said yesterday, even as their supporters pledged to take their fight to Washington.

Their hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo’s parents appeared quietly resigned to watching her die, but could claim one Easter victory: The severely brain-damaged woman received a drop of communion wine on her tongue – her only sustenance in nine days – after her husband allowed her to receive the sacrament.

A WRENCHING dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo neared its end yesterday as the brain-damaged Florida woman moved closer to death and her parents gave up their long and bitter legal battle to prolong her life.

Terri Schiavo’s parents asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple’s severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water.

As Terri Schiavo drew closer to death Saturday, a Florida state judge rejected another attempt by the brain-damaged woman’s parents to reconnect her feeding tube, leaving the couple with little hope they could keep her alive.

A state judge in Clearwater, Florida, today rejected another attempt by Terri Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube reconnected, rejecting what the couple’s lawyer described as their last chance to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

A US government appeals court panel refused to order the reinsertion of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, hours after her father said she was weakening and down “to her last hours”.

AS Terri Schiavo’s health waned, a judge yesterday refused to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, thwarting another legal move from the brain-damaged woman’s parents.

A judge today refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, yet another setback for the parents of the brain-damaged woman in their battle against her husband to keep her alive.

As Terri Schiavo’s health waned, her parents pressed on today to restore the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube after the nation’s highest court and judges in Florida defeated their latest legal appeals.

A seven-year legal battle was drawing to a tragic end for the parents of Terri Schiavo tonight, as last ditch efforts to have her feeding tube re-inserted were blocked yet again by the courts.

The US Supreme Court refused to order Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube reinserted today, rejecting a desperate appeal by her parents to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.

FOR the second time in less than a day, a federal appeals court yesterday rejected a bid by Terri Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube re-inserted.

Their options dwindling after losing two consecutive court appeals, Terri Schiavo’s parents vowed today to take their fight to the US Supreme Court as their brain-damaged daughter was in her fifth full day without a feeding tube.

A US federal appeals court in Atlanta today refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, denying an emergency request by the severely brain-damaged woman’s parents.

A lawyer for the husband of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the centre of a life-or-death legal battle, says he expects a court ruling today.

A Florida judge has extended an order keeping brain-damaged Terri Schiavo’s alive, saying he needed time to decide whether her parents should be allowed to pursue further efforts to keep her husband from removing her life support.