It’s been 12 years since Thomas Ryan last competed at Millstreet International Horse Show, but he made sure his return was memorable yesterday by winning the Hyatt Hotels Grand Prix.

Shane Breen was taking a lead from his horse’s name yesterday as he prepared for the first Chinese leg of the Global Champions Tour.

Sarah Ennis was "in shock" yesterday after achieving the biggest win of her career at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England.

The first Irish equines exported to China under a ground-breaking protocol signed last July arrived last Monday.

Wexford’s Bertram Allen confirmed his status as a rising star of show jumping when riding Molly Malone V to victory in yesterday’s grand prix at Belgium’s nations cup show.

Tipperary brothers Trevor and Shane Breen were denied a one-two in the grand prix at the three-star show in Hardelot, France, yesterday.

It wouldn’t come as a big surprise to find that Ireland show jumping manager Robert Splaine is putting the controversy over Denis Lynch behind him, and he would be forgiven for, briefly, taking his focus off the Olympics today, as he aims to engineer a get-out-of-jail performance in Hickstead.

BUSINESSMAN and tax exile Jim Kennedy is to face 16 charges of making corrupt payments to politicians during the 1990s in return for their votes to rezone lands owned by one of his companies, Jackson Way Properties, at Carrickmines in south Dublin.

A Louth man was given a box containing a pistol and bullets in a “very swift handover” in a carpark in Dundalk, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The Cork man accused of money-laundering gave an Offaly jeweller supermarket-bags full of sterling totalling £250,000 (€281,000) to put in his safe, but there was no room so he put all the money under his parents’ bed, it was claimed today.

The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

The Cork man on trial for money-laundering was in fear of the former chairman of Bank of Scotland (Ireland) – Phil Flynn – it was claimed today by the detective in charge of the investigation.