BILLY TWOMEY almost gave Irish fans the perfect ending yesterday to the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show but, in the end, he had to settle for third in the feature event, the €200,000 Longines Grand Prix.

It was three-in-a-row for Ireland at the Failte Ireland Dublin Horse Show today with Billy Twomey and Shane Breen taking outright victory in the first two classes and Cian O'Connor sharing victory in the Puissance.

American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, honoured in Sweden for his work on how information stored within a gene is copied and transferred to the parts of cells that produce proteins.

France’s Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert Grubbs and Richard Schrock have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry.