Just one of three planned point-to-point fixtures survived the elements yesterday and that was the Island Foxhounds meeting that took place at Ballydarragh in north Co Wexford.

On a miserably wet afternoon for all concerned, the Pat Doyle-trained Serious Mixture lit up yesterday’s Kilkenny Foxhounds point-to-point meeting at Grennan Castle outside Thomastown by recording a gallant pillar-to-post success in a competitive first division of the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Rescuers searching for the missing crew of a sunken trawler off the Wexford coast have found two empty life rafts from the vessel this morning.

SWEDISH safety experts are coming to Dublin this week to help tackle unprecedented carnage on Irish roads.