Apprentice jockey Ryan Powell escaped with only minor injuries following a nasty incident in the final race at Newmarket on Saturday.

Donaghy’s been unlucky, but so have other Kerry forwards

Austin Stacks 2-9 Dr Crokes 0-13: Goals win matches, they say, and this was well and truly borne out at Connolly Park yesterday evening where Austin Stacks overcame Dr Crokes in the Credit Union Senior Football League Division 1 Final (2014) after a game that went to extra-time.

A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.

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The revelation that serial killer Charles Manson is to wed has raised questions about prison marriages, conjugal visits, and the weird world of love behind bars, writes Connor Adams Sheets

Mass-murderer Charles Manson has obtained a licence to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison.

The surface at Curraheen Park has been very fast in recent months and so it was no great surprise to see two track records broken on Saturday night, but the hardest question to answer is why it took so long for the 550 mark to go.

Ger Lyons is fancied to continue his excellent run with Unrequited in the Follow @TipperaryRaces On Twitter Maiden at Tipperary tonight.

The withdrawal of Smoke Pixie from the quarter-finals of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks is a major blow to her connections following her stunning 28.31 run in dreadful conditions at Shelbourne Park last Saturday.

Raya Star will be given an entry in the Coral Cup as well as the Country Hurdle at Cheltenham after his fine run on Friday.

Neptune Collonges heads 14 declared runners for Saturday’s Betfred Grand National Trial at Haydock.

EVERY sport has a major rivalry, be it Cork-Kerry or Dublin-Meath in Gaelic football or Munster-Leinster in rugby but the Bord Gáis Neptune versus UCC Demons clash in basketball is up there with them (7pm tonight, Neptune Stadium).

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WE had turned for home and were short and left of the long par four eleventh hole on Killarney’s O’Mahony’s Point course when Colm Cooper’s playground imagination kicked in.

FORMER Derry star Joe Brolly has labelled Cork football as “primitive” and Graham Canty as “overrated”.

A man charged with stalking Halle Berry pleaded not guilty and was ordered to stay 500 yards away from the Oscar-winning actress if he is released from jail.

It’s five years since Kieran Donaghy burst on to the scene and changed the whole football landscape. He’s learned a lot in that time but he’s still bursting with enthusiasm and still relishing a Munster final with Cork

FOR years, Armagh had to fend off criticism they were an ageing side.

HAVING seen one former champion in Master Minded trail home a well-beaten eighth this week, Clive Smith is relying on his old favourite Kauto Star to propel him back into the limelight in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

UCC DEMONS may have to plan without influential captain Shane Coughlan for Sunday’s NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague play-off with Belfast Star at the Mardyke Arena.

HENRO BOY can get punters away to the perfect start by landing the opening Martinstown Oportunity Maiden Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

The facilities will be limited but it will be a happy occasion when Shelbourne Park re-opens for racing this evening following the longest break the track has had since the Foot and Mouth outbreak.

A High Court judge has stated that a construction company acted in a deceitful and fraudulent manner in its handling of a claim for a death-in-service benefit payment from the family of an employee who died in 2005.

11890 KILLESTER will leave their NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague opponents with plenty of food for thought over the Festive season after a perfect campaign up to now in defence of the title.

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THE way results have unfolded at Cheltenham this week, it won’t be any great surprise should Kauto Star bite the dust in today’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

DEFENDING champions UCC Demons face a tricky assignment in defence of the Nivea for Men SuperLeague title when they travel to Belfast on Sunday afternoon to face the Northern Conference runners-up, Star, for the second successive week.

Past winners Kauto Star and Denman head 19 acceptors for the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup following the first scratchings deadline.

Tony McCoy will ride Denman in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup on March 19.

Ferdy Murphy expects Kalahari King to need the outing when the Queen Mother Champion Chase hopeful has his first race for almost 10 months at Doncaster tomorrow.

DAVID Simcock is gearing Bushman for a tilt at the totesport.com Cambridgeshire at Newmarket on October 3.

SEAMIE Heffernan is looking forward to making his Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup debut at Ascot today, where he will represent Ireland along with Richard Hughes and Neil Callan.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S questionable attitude to children, including sharing a bed with young boys, came under the media spotlight during his child abuse trial in 2005.

WHEN the pennants hung from the roof of Neptune Stadium they spelled out the history of Irish basketball but, those days, the team that once ruled the roost survives on memories.

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Star De Mohaison takes the next step on the road to a possible tilt at the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup when he has his first race over fences for two years on Friday.

BEAVER PATROL has been knocking on the door in some big races of late and can make a successful leap into Group Three company in the KBC Supreme Stakes at Goodwood today.

Ruby Walsh has confirmed he will ride Kauto Star in next month’s totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup.

DENMAN remains unchanged on a mark of 176 following his victory in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown on Friday.

Clive Smith has no worries about Ruby Walsh’s fitness ahead of Kauto Star’s bid for back-to-back victories in the Stan James King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.

PAUL Nicholls has put Kauto Star on stand-by for the paddypower.com Tingle Creek Chase in case the ground is testing at Sandown on Saturday.