IF you point your car south from Kilkenny city and travel on any of the major three arteries towards Waterford, Carrick-on-Suir or Clonmel, you’ll travel through Danesfort GAA country.

After a somewhat rocky start to his career as a professional jockey, Davy Russell has quietly gone about becoming one of Ireland’s leading jockeys. On the eve of a serious tilt at the Grand National, Declan Colley finds out how he’s done it.