Connor Beasley is reported to be in a stable condition after undergoing surgery on a fractured skull following a fall at Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

Gardaí in Limerick remain on a heightened state of alert amid fears a gang feud in the city could reignite following the attempted murder of Christy Keane.

Brian Linehan is riding with terrific confidence at present and, fresh from his success aboard Hardtorock at Dawstown on bank holiday Monday, the Fermoy amateur partnered the third double of his career at the County Limerick Hunt point-to-point fixture at Athlacca on Saturday.

Frankie Dettori shone in Qatar yesterday as Dubday landed the Emir’s Trophy, the highlight for thoroughbreds at the three-day HH The Emir International Equestrian Sword Festival.

Casper Smart says it's "hard" being Jennifer Lopez's ex-boyfriend.

A senior garda said his “hands are tied” in relation to dealing with children younger than 12 “running riot” in a private housing estate in Ennis.

The journalist who broke the story about Roy Hodgson’s “monkey joke” claims the player who leaked the story is angry at Andros Townsend’s backing of the England boss.

Just minutes after Elizabeth Smart, 14, was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police car idled by along a neighbourhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint.

A freshwater shrimp, an island-dwelling lizard and a pupfish from Arizona have been declared extinct, while nearly 21,000 species are at risk of dying out, an updated “red list” showed.

A file has been sent to the DPP following the arrest of a woman in connection with a fatal hit and run that claimed the life of a Polish father of one.

Extra Garda patrols were mounted in the Moyross estate in Limerick last night after a local man died from bullet wounds he received on Sunday at his brother’s wedding.

Joseph O’Brien stretched five clear of Pat Smullen in the title-race when sharing a two-year-old double with his trainer-father Aidan at Dundalk last night.

Winner of his maiden in heavy ground over course and distance three weeks ago, the John Oxx-trained Hartani followed-up when producing a gutsy front-running display in the opening Follow TipperaryRaces On Twitter Race at Tipperary last night, sparking a double for champion jockey Johnny Murtagh.

Brian Meehan’s highly-touted Most Improved carries “maximum stable confidence” on his seasonal reappearance in tomorrow’s Novae Bloodstock Insurance Craven Stakes at Newmarket.

A former soap star who admitted driving the getaway car in a gangland shooting has been cleared of murder, it can be reported today.

A DESPERATE woman called a taxi driver and told him to “get me out of here” hours before her battered body was discovered in a pool of blood in her home.

EDDIE Lynam has warned punters his stable star Sole Power is not at peak fitness ahead of his run in the Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary tonight.

Eddie Lynam has warned punters his stable star Sole Power is not at peak fitness ahead of his run in the Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary on Friday.

A Co Meath man who bludgeoned a mother of three to death at her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year, has been jailed for 10 years at the Central Criminal Court.

The fiery culture clash between returning emigrant John Wayne and the Irish locals resonates 60 years on, says Cleo Murphy.

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

The jury in the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin of a man charged with the murder of a Cork mother of three will resume its deliberations tomorrow following one hour of deliberation.

A 47-year-old man accused of the murder of a Cork woman in her home on Easter Sunday last year told a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today that the person who carried out the murder as a “ complete psychopath”.

A MAN has told gardaí that the Cork woman he is charged with murdering at her home on Easter Sunday last year had a “past life” and that people regularly called to her home in the months before her death.

A MOTHER of three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A mother-of-three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley and the door of a microwave oven after being knocked to the ground, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

THE parents of a Libyan woman who claimed she was detained by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops and later gang raped said that their daughter is being held hostage at the Libyan leader’s compound in Tripoli.

A federal jury in the US has convicted a former street preacher of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart more than eight years ago.

A DAUGHTER of a murdered woman made an emotional farewell to her mother, who should have been celebrating her 58th birthday next Wednesday.

Cork woman Catherine Smart, who was murdered in Midleton on Easter Sunday morning, has been laid to rest today.

A LARGE crowd of mourners attended the removal last night of murder victim Catherine Smart, whose body was found in her home in east Cork last Sunday morning.

GARDAÍ investigating the death of a mother-of-three have interviewed more than 50 people and expect it will take at least a month before they have completed a file for the DPP.

A MAN is being questioned in connection with the murder of a woman in Cork at the weekend.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 57-year-old woman in Midleton in Co Cork have arrested a man in his late 40s for questioning about the woman's death.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a 57-year-old in Co Cork have found no evidence of forced entry at her home following a technical examination of the house.

Detectives were trying today to piece together the events leading up to the violent death of a middle-aged woman.

A TOWN is in shock following the murder of a 57-year-old mother of three who was found beaten to death in the sitting room of her bungalow.

Bryan Smart and Phillip Makin have struck up a fruitful partnership in the absence of Tom Eaves and the trainer-jockey combination followed up Friday's Southwell hat-trick as Snow Bay struck at the Nottinghamshire track.

A woman abducted at 14 from her bedroom seven years ago told a Utah court that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape.

JIMMY Styles and Frankie Dettori proved all the bluster surrounding the draw for big-sprint handicaps is meaningless when winning the William Hill (Ayr) Gold Cup.

BRYAN Smart is expecting a big run from the unbeaten Ceedwell in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot today.

Bryan Smart is expecting a big run from the unbeaten Ceedwell in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow.