Ireland pony show jumping team manager Tom Slattery is confident his charges will rise to the occasion as the European Championships return to Millstreet next week after 25 years.

Next year’s European Pony Championships will be held in Millstreet, Co Cork, two weeks later than envisaged.

Jumps used during last year’s London Olympics will grace the Green Glens arena next week for the annual Millstreet Horse Show.

The Department of Justice plans to renew efforts to ensure residents of refugee and asylum seeker centres fully engage with an established complaints procedure.

Twenty minutes after his dressage test in Saumur yesterday, Sam Watson was candid in his summing up: “It was awful.”

Holders PBC retained the Barry Cup as they came from behind to defeat arch rivals CBC in yesterday’s decider at Lansdowne.

AUTUMN show jumping leagues could be under threat amid doubts over the standard of insurance cover provided by ShowjumpingIreland (SJI), Ballyrafter proprietor Anne Waistell claimed yesterday.

HOLDERS PBC Cork will not wish to countenance the thought of being dumped from the Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup without registering a win when they face rivals CBC Cork at Temple Hill today (3pm).

MEMBERS of the public who were collecting emergency supplies of water from tankers at Blackpool Shopping Centre on Cork city’s northside yesterday were admirably level-headed about the whole affair, in spite of their concerns about getting through up to a week without direct access to one of life’s basics.

THE Boomerang and Centrepoint competitions will once again throw up future champions at this week’s Millstreet Horse Show, even though the format of these prestigious tests has been changed.

COUNTRY music legend Dolly Parton apologised to fans yesterday after the last minute cancellation of her Cork concert at the weekend.

Ray Ryan, Agribusiness Correspondent

THE memories will come galloping back at the Green Glens of Millstreet over the next four days as 30 years of the celebrated horse show are marked.