STEINBECK, having mixed it with the best without much success since the start of the campaign, outclassed the opposition in the Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney last night.

IN THE heyday of the Dixies, Brendan O’Brien was used to stopping traffic.

BIRDHILL, a community of less than 200 people, is today basking in its status as Ireland’s tidiest village.

DRINKING large amounts of stimulants may seem an unusual method of fundraising, but coffee lovers turned out in every county in Ireland yesterday to indulge themselves in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation.