She's a badass.

Willie Murphy from New York weighs 105 pounds and deadlifts 215 pounds, She’s also a 77-year-old grandmother. And a badass but that goes without saying.

The Golden Vale Foxhounds point-to-point took place at Glenbane outside Holycross on Saturday and the Pat Doyle-trained Indy Five made amends for his unfortunate final fence mishap when well in command at Rathcannon last month by landing the opening four-year-old maiden-

Shay Barry, who ended a long and successful riding career last year, registered his first training success when Cracked Rear View landed the bumper in Sligo last night, the www.coimtysligoraces.com Pro-Am Flat Race.

The Denis Prendergast-trained newcomer Free Expression lit up yesterday’s Kanturk-Duhallow point-to-point at Dromahane by posting a terrific stamina-laden performance with Kevin Power to win a vintage second division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

The Eoin Doyle-trained Mazuri Cowboy proved a shock and fortunate winner of a dramatic Lyons Of Limerick Jaguar Land Rover Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

Martin Coppinger and Eddie Carr will face each other in the rescheduled All-Ireland senior final at Béal na mBláth on Saturday, August 24.

A champion sailor has been praised after eight children were rescued at sea during an unexpected squall.

The home where Eoghan, 10, and Ruairí, 5, Chada grew up was cordoned off yesterday by gardaí to ensure their grief stricken mother and her family and friends could mourn in private.

Community figures close to the extended Chada family in Co Carlow are perplexed at how Sanjeev Chada’s financial troubles may have triggered his extreme behaviour, ending in the death of his two children.

Two children have died in a car accident after they went missing with their father.

It was a case of rolling back the years at the rescheduled Kanturk – Duhallow point-to-point meeting at Dromahane on Saturday for Robert Tyner’s 13-year-old Preists Leap sluiced home in the open lightweight.

Prince De Beauchene made a successful return to action and proved himself on course for the Aintree Grand National when coasting to a smooth success in the Woodlands House Hotel Hurdle in Limerick yesterday.

The president of the NPA, Jimmy Grainger of Kildare, has a long and varied tenure with the association as both competitor and judge before scaling the heights in the administrative side.

Golden Silver capitalised on the last-fence fall of Osirixamix to claim the Grade Two Hilly Way Chase at Cork.

JACKSONSLADY, trained and partly-owned by Philip Dempsey, proved best in the listed Grabel Mares Hurdle on the opening day of Punchestown’s winter season.

DEREK O’Connor is in virtually unstoppable form at present and the Galwegian, well on course to win an eighth consecutive point-to-point riders championship, partnering a sparkling four-timer at yesterday’s well-attended Bartlemy fixture.

SPILL THE BEANS, who had hit the bar on a couple of occasions previously, got off the mark when landing the opening maiden hurdle at Tramore yesterday.

BROTHERS Ger and Kieran Coakley of Clonakilty scored a remarkable double at the All-Ireland Ploughing Championships last week.

A MAN who drowned at Inny Strand in Waterville, Co Kerry, 21 years ago while trying to rescue his lifelong friend in treacherous conditions was honoured posthumously with the highest national bravery award at a ceremony in Leinster House.

Tears of joy were shed today as the State recognised courageous people for outstanding acts of bravery.

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A HOUSE constructed to today’s regulations will be far superior to those of just 10 years ago because of higher insulation and air-tightness guidelines, along with heat extraction systems and low carbon heating.

THE brolly-free national ploughing championships, which attracted overall attendances of almost 190,000 people over three days, ended in Athy last evening.

GER Lyons, on the mark at Leopardstown on Thursday, struck again when Putapriceonthat and Rain Delayed provided him with a double at Down Royal last night.

BUILDING a one-off house is considered a trial by most people, something to only be tackled once in a lifetime.

Willie Murphy, who trains near the Curragh in County Kildare, ended a lean spell when Beechside made the long trip from Ireland to Newcastle pay off with victory in the CPD Distribution Maiden Stakes.

Minister for Health Mary Harney tonight said she was “disturbed” at revelations donated blood had been sold to 23 drugs firms over a 19-year-period.

STRICT rules to reduce the risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease through blood transfusion were introduced yesterday by the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).

THE North Eastern Health Board has denied women’s lives are at risk because of delays in supplying blood products at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth.

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THE Irish Blood Transfusion Service intends to introduce tighter restrictions on donations early next year to further reduce the risk of vCJD being transmitted through blood.

The board of the Irish blood transfusion service is to meet this morning with it’s national medical director, to discuss a row in which two of its senior executives were suspended.