Dubs Stars 3-18 Dublin 2-13

Dublin 2-08 Westmeath 0-13

The epic battle between Derek O’Connor and Jamie Codd for the 2013/14 point-to-point riders’ championship moved to yesterday’s Dawstown fixture, run under the auspices of the Muskerry Foxhounds at Birch Hill outside Grenagh.

Michael Winters is experiencing a fine run at present and Missunited’s handler sent out two winners in his absence at yesterday’s well-attended Dungarvan Harriers point-to-point fixture at Affane.

Carmel Winters: “I have a responsibility to people as a storyteller to not shy away from experiences that need to be aired.”

Back at the scene of his memorable Guinness Galway Hurdle success with Rebel Fitz, Mick Winters struck again at Ballybrit yesterday when classy mare Missunited made every yard of the running to justify 8/13 favouritism in the Easyfix Rubber Products Novice Hurdle.

A first-half goal from Paul Winters set Dublin on the way to a deserved five-point win over Kilkenny in their Leinster MHC semi-final in Portlaoise last Saturday afternoon.

THERE are harsh realities and then there are home truths.

THE Jimmy Mangan-trained Oscar Delta lit up yesterday’s well-attended Kildorrery Point to Point meeting, staged on the Vaughan family’s farm at Rockmills Stud, by sluicing home in the Open Lightweight.

GARDAÍ said 10 people arrested shortly after the gangland murder of Sean Winters on Sunday night do not appear to be strongly connected to the killing.

A PASTOR shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman’s four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene that congregants initially thought was a skit, police said.