Trainer John Murphy suggested a possible tilt at the UAE Derby at Meydan next March for Unorthodox after the debutant sprang a 25/1 shock in the two-year-old maiden in Dundalk last night.

Trainer Tony Martin and owner JP McManus are set to break new ground in France today as Clonard Street goes for Group One glory in the Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

On Irish Derby day at the Curragh, Saturday, June 28, Aidan O’Brien had just trained his third winner of the afternoon, Giovanni Boldini, in a Listed race.

Ol’ Man River enhanced his Classic prospects with an authoritative victory in the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh.

Ol’ Man River, as low as 12-1 for the 2015 Derby, makes his eagerly awaited second appearance in the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.

Gardaí are bracing themselves for retaliation after a man was shot dead and his partner injured outside a primary school in north Dublin.

It has emerged the man shot dead in north Dublin this morning was due to stand trial for a violent brawl outside the local school last November.

Gardaí are investigating a fatal shooting incident which occurred on Clonard Street, Balbriggan shortly after 9am this morning.

Aidan O’Brien will make a late decision on where Ol’ Man River runs this weekend with the highly-regarded juvenile one of 16 possibles in the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

Stephen Nolan would love to run Prince Rudi in the Irish National next spring after his stable stalwart landed the feature race on the sixth day of the Galway Festival on Saturday.

A Balbriggan teenager has been given four years detention for a crime spree which included violently robbing a pensioner, breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose and mugging a party of Austrian tourists.

A Balbriggan teenager will be sentenced next week for a crime spree which included violently robbing an elderly man, mugging several train commuters and breaking a girl's collarbone and a garda's nose.

Colin Whelan thought he could evade capture and prison - but he was wrong, write John Breslin and Siobhan Gaffney.

POLICE were continuing to question a 42-year-old man in connection with the murder of a mother-of-four yesterday as mourners began to gather for her funeral.

SIX months after the wedding photo, left, was taken, Mary Whelan was strangled to death in the family home, and her husband Colin was the prime suspect.

A man who disappeared from Co Dublin while awaiting trial for the murder of his wife has been discovered on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca.