There is a great card to get the 2019 Punchestown festival underway and Delta Work can ensure a good start to a long week for punters by taking the Grade 1 Dooley Insurance Group Champion Novice Chase.

Nina Carberry and Katie Walsh fought out a stirring finish to the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham and the pair repeated the dose at Punchestown as the former landed the Kildare Hunt Club Fr Sean Breen Memorial Chase aboard Zest For Life.

A “major player” in ATM fraud who stole over €25,000 in a week and was caught after trying to avoid a garda checkpoint has been given a four year sentence by at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

GOVERNMENT efforts to deliver broadband technology to rural Ireland are in danger of failing, unless they are complemented by the necessary technical back-up and content, a conference has heard.