A dash from the school yard to the stable yard proved a profitable one for jockey Evan Dwan, as the 19-year-old Leaving Certificate student secured his maiden victory inside the rails by taking the closing race at Limerick aboard the Pat Doyle-trained Mossback.

THIS evening as the light dies we’ll go looking for the reindeer in the Phoenix Park with our kids, writes Victoria White.

An alcoholic mother snatched her four-year-old twins from social workers in the UK and might have fled to Ireland, a judge said today.

Two men have been killed after a plane crashed at Biggin Hill air show.