The ‘Shark’ Hanlon-trained Luska Lad rolled back the years by destroying the opposition in the four-mile open at the opening session of the Kinsale point-to-point festival at a wet Farrangalway on Saturday evening.

Handler Padraig Higgins has experienced a hugely-rewarding point-to-point season and the Ballynoe-based handler recorded his eighth success of the campaign by sending out Golden Crisp to record a hugely-popular victory in the winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended second stage of the two-day South Union Foxhounds fixture at Farrangalway outside Kinsale.

The unassuming Irish DJ who rocked Glastonbury last year has been invited back for a high-profile residency at this year’s massive summer festival.

‘Corky’ Carroll certainly had an afternoon to savour at yesterday’s well-attended second session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point at Farrangalway for he partnered three winners.

Kinsale Golf Club received the Munster Club of the Year award at the recent Munster Branch GUI AGM.

Kinsale Golf Club will continue its centenary celebrations in the grandest style this week when it hosts the Golfing Union of Ireland’s National Finals of the Cups and Shields, sponsored by Chartis Insurance.

Robert Tyner left yesterday’s second-stage of the two-day South Union Foxhounds point-to-point festival at Farrangalway outside Kinsale virtually assured of victory in the trainers’ championship after saddling two winners on the six-race card.

Trainer Martin Brassil seems to have a potentially-decent prospect on his hands in Woodford County who lit up the first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting at Farrangalway on Saturday evening by winning a particularly-competitive renewal of the five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

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THE John Halley-trained Perce Rock, a former 140-rated chaser when under the care of Tommy Stack, showed that he’s ideally suited by the switch to the point-to-point sphere by making a winning hunt racing debut in the open at the South Union Foxhounds meeting at Farrangalway outside Kinsale yesterday.

A FIREFIGHTER saved a 70-year-old man’s life after he suffered a heart attack on a golf course.