This week Portugal hosts a round of the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) as the action moves to the coastal venue of Estoril. Irish riders Bertram Allen, Michael Duffy, Denis Lynch, Darragh Kenny, and Mark McAuley will all be in the hunt for individual purses as well as appearances for their respective Global Champions League (GCL) teams.

Ireland’s show jumping team manager Rodrigo Pessoa brings a five-member squad to Rome for this week’s Italian Nations Cup, but will not face the same pressure he experienced last week in France.

Friday sees the first of Ireland’s competitive show jumping team fixtures this year as manager Rodrigo Pessoa brings a strong squad to La Baule for the French Nations Cup.

Shane Breen will be hoping for a repeat of his form a fortnight ago when lining out in Shanghai this week for the latest round of the Global Champions League.

How extraordinary it is that a creature only minutes hatched from an egg can take to the air.

Ireland’s Bertram Allen makes his first FEI World Cup appearance of the 2018/2019 season in what is the third round of the series in Verona, Italy this weekend.

The Irish eventing team kept their nerve to hold onto the silver medal on the final day of the eventing competition at the World Equestrian Games in North Carolina yesterday where Pádraig McCarthy added to the Irish haul by claiming silver in the individual competition.

Thanks to better diagnostics, improved surgery techniques, and targeted drug therapy, more and more people are surviving cancer.

Rodrigo Pessoa must have been inspired when picking the Irish riders for today’s Aga Khan nations cup competition as they claimed the top three places in yesterday’s Stablelab Stakes at the Stena Line Dublin Horse and almost nabbed the fourth spot as well.

“All in all everyone is happy and it’s onwards and upwards from here,” said Irish rider Shane Breen after Sunday’s nations cup league opener in Samorin, Slovakia.

Forts and Martello towers dotted around Cork Harbour and what was once the biggest gunpowder factory in the British empire could soon be designated as Unesco World Heritage sites.

“You don’t win nations cups without jumping clear rounds and we didn’t jump enough of them,” said Michael Blake after he had seen the Irish show jumping team he managed fall short of repeating last year’s success in Ocala, Florida on Sunday evening.

Looking for a holiday with a difference? Award-winning travel writer Isabel Conway rounds up the hottest travel trends and destinations for the year ahead.

Irish riders netted three-star Grand Prix victories on both sides of the Atlantic at the weekend, with Paul O’Shea scoring in Tryon, North Carolina, and Darragh Kenny coming out on top at Montpellier in France.

Protesters in Peru have blocked the train line to the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, stranding thousands of tourists.

A study from NUI Galway has found that older people are more likely to get an emotional and psychological boost from listening to music than younger adults, says Margaret Jennings.

The Irish team will take to the stage in today’s Furusiyya Series nations cup at the Discover Ireland Dublin Horse Show aiming to continue some stellar performances by the home contingent.

Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol has been named as the best rated landmark in Ireland in the Travellers’ Choice TM awards for Landmarks, announced by TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site.

A couple of tourists were up in Peru's Machu Picchu yesterday and got a surprise when they looked at their holiday snaps.

Zac Efron has thanked fans for their "support" after it was reported he went to rehab earlier this year.

Ireland has been placed fourth in a top-10 list of dream destinations by readers of an up-market travel magazine in the US.

In 1986, Sam Baker was on a train in Peru that was blown up by terrorists. The blast killed the people sitting with him and he had a cut artery, blown-in eardrums and brain damage. This prompted the Texan to write, and to become a singer-songwriter.

From Machu Picchu to King Tut’s grave, the ‘National Geographic’ auction takes us on a rich pictorial history, writes Trevor Coin

Michael Wigge left Berlin without a penny and travelled over 40,000km to Antarctica, hitchhiking, bartering and working his way by ship, plane, car, and foot, from Europe to Canada and the US and through Latin America.

Hundreds of tourists have had to be turned away from Machu Picchu after Peru’s famed Inca ruins reached capacity.

Helicopters have been banned from the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in an effort to protect local wildlife.

Peru's Machu Picchu has reopened after being closed for two months following heavy rains.

Peruvian officials are celebrating the reopening of the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after a two-month closure caused by flooding.

Peruvian officials said they expect train services to historic Inca ruins will be restored on March 29.

The last young backpackers flew away from Machu Picchu as clouds closed in again, leaving Peru to grapple with flood damage that will close its top tourist site for weeks, or perhaps months.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs was last night providing consular assistance to nine Irish tourists who were among 2,000 people stranded by mudslides in the Machu Picchu region of Peru where a state of emergency has been declared.

A mudslide on the famed Inca trail to Machu Picchu killed an Argentinian tourist and a Peruvian guide, as authorities evacuated hundreds of tourists by helicopter from a flood zone where more than 1,500 others were still stranded.

Heavy rains and mudslides in Peru blocked the train route to the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, keeping nearly 2,000 tourists stranded.

ONE of Ireland’s leading archaeological locations, Lough Gur, in Co Limerick, could soon be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Tens of thousands of union members took to the streets across Peru to protest against rising food and fuel prices they blame on the free market policies of President Alan Garcia.

A top US University is holding some 40,000 artifacts from the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian government official heading efforts to return the pieces said.

THE Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll.

The new seven wonders of the world have been chosen after 100 million people voted.

The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru’s Machu Picchu are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world, as a massive poll draws to a close.

Cameron Diaz has issued an apology after 'insulting' locals on a visit to Peru by carrying a bag emblazoned with a communist slogan.