There were no long faces at Leahy’s Open Farm after a tiny new arrival provided a big gee up to the Cork centre.

The number of people missing from a community wiped out by a mudslide has been reduced to 90 as the families and friends of those still unaccounted for confronted the reality that some may never be found.

Amongst his more familiar but less tactful friends, Donal Leahy is oft jokingly referred to as The Nearly Man. Mafi Magic and Two Excuses must accept their share of the blame for that.

A Galway man who pulled out a firearm and threatened to shoot a dog owner after their dogs became entangled has avoided a jail term.

A Galway man who suffers from depression pulled out a firearm and threatened to shoot a dog owner after their dogs became entangled.

The Kerry AgriBusiness St Leger has reached the quarter-final stage and tonight’s four heats feature the clash between two strong fancies for outright glory, Roxholme Bully and Skywalker Farloe, in the third heat.

There was a minor upset in Saturday night’s first semi-final of the Tyrur McGuigan Open 575 when Razldazl Will, now in the care of Neilus O’Connell, made every yard of the running to claim the first place in next week’s final.

A giant inflatable snowman missing since the early hours of last Monday morning in Wicklow has been returned.

A teenager has been found guilty of murdering a father-of-two who died after being stabbed in the chest, police said.

'The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn' is the opening salvo of a proposed trilogy, amalgamating the plots of 'The Crab With The Golden Claws', 'The Secret Of The Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham’s Treasure'.

Everybody can’t win the race, but everyone can try.

THE FIRST SNOW by M Christina Butler and Frank Endersby (Little Tiger; €13.03) is a big, colourful book that tells of a young deer’s first encounter with snow.

NIGEL TWISTON-DAVIES is hoping to have six runners in the John Smith’s Grand National as he seeks a third success in the Aintree showpiece.

Nigel Twiston-Davies is hoping to have six runners in the John Smith’s Grand National as he seeks a third success in the Aintree showpiece.

A CERTAIN Belgian boy reporter named Tintin was the first to reach the moon, the Vatican newspaper joked yesterday, as the world marked 40 years since the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

JUST when you thought our sleaze-splattered banking sector could hardly get much murkier, up pops a money mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot.

Ferdy Murphy is looking forward to having a crack at some decent handicaps with Divers after his

Willie Mullins is looking forward to seeing Snowy Morning make his seasonal reappearance in the Grade Two Clonmel Oil Chase tomorrow.

Steven Spielberg insists he is still in the director's chair for the first outing of the eagerly awaited 'Tintin' franchise - despite the studio who owns the comic strip's copyright insisting moviemaker Peter Jackson is at the helm of the debut big screen venture.

A cocaine addict who sold the drug to undercover gardaí in the city centre has been given a two years sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

SNOWY Morning, despite the fact the conditions of the contest are hardly in his favour, gets the nap to win the attheraces.com Free Video Form Hurdle at Punchestown this afternoon.

Snowy Morning arrived back at Willie Mullins’ yard with no ill effects from his fall in Saturday’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury.

Willie Mullins has his sights set on a crack at the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury on Saturday week with Snowy Morning.

Ferdy Murphy and Graham Lee stole the show at Ayr with a 20-1 treble highlighted by Marshall Hall, who completed a hat-trick in impressive fashion in the Guinness Handicap Chase and set himself up for a trip to the Punchestown Festival in the process.

RUBY WALSH was the man to follow at Navan yesterday, notching a big-race double with Young Desperado and Snowy Morning.

Leslingtaylor maintained his unbeaten record over jumps with a smooth victory in the totescoop6 Introductory Novices’ Hurdle at Musselburgh.

Graham Lee rescued his weekend with a 6-1 treble at Musselburgh courtesy of Some Touch, Masafi – both trained by Howard Johnson for Graham Wylie – and Snowy.

OOMPA LUMPA, owned in partnership by well known English punter Harry Finlay and Skibbereen’s Denis O'Driscoll, landed the Rakes Of Mallow all-aged stake when coming from behind to take the turn by two lengths from Run Like Baros at a very well run meeting at Ballymagooly yesterday.

TWO burglars who beheaded a cat and cooked a live mouse in a microwave were jailed for three years each yesterday.