Anglers and conservationists throughout Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford were joined by watersports clubs at the weekend to protest the damage to a salmon weir and the risks to migratory fish on the famed Blackwater River.

WHATEVER NEXT (6/1) lit up yesterday's Knockanard point-to-point by registering a hugely-impressive debut success in the first division of the five-year-old geldings' maiden.