THE Aviva Stadium and more than 30 other architectural wonders have been toppled by a tent-like structure which shelters Limerick’s historic Milk Market.

THE John Murphy trained Top Spin topped proceedings at the Tattersalls July Sale yesterday.

JP McManus and his family are helping many building workers get through the construction slump.

LIMERICK’S mayor yesterday called on a London catering company, which has the contract for the JP McManus Invitation Golf Pro-Am banquet at Adare Manor, to hire out-of-work Irish chefs.

ANY doubts about Fiveforthree staying three miles were totally dispelled when he ran away with the Grade 1 ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

RENOWNED gambler and racehorse owner JP McManus has undergone treatment for prostate cancer at a clinic in the US, it was learned yesterday.

Triumph Hurdle runner-up Franchoek reverts to two miles for a crack at the Eventus Marquees Champion 4-Y-O Hurdle at Punchestown on Saturday.

AFTER their glitzy €3 million wedding today in Co Limerick, newlyweds Sue Ann McManus and Cian Foley plan to make a new life in California, it was learned last night.

GUESTS will raise a €100,000 champagne toast next Saturday during the wedding celebration of JP McManus’s only daughter.

JP MCMANUS has hired Buckingham Palace’s favourite banquet organisers to arrange his daughter’s lavish wedding next month.

JP McMANUS and his wife Noreen are planning a multi-million euro, Michael Flatley-style wedding bash for their daughter in Co Limerick next June.

LEGENDARY gambler and racehorse owner JP McManus has secured a deal with a junior Limerick GAA club to swap its three-acre playing fields for a state-of-the-art sports complex on a 20-acre site nearby.

First Gold has been retired by owner JP McManus and trainer Francois Doumen following his run in the John Smith’s Grand National.

French hurdling ace Baracouda has been retired after sustaining a slight injury at the Cheltenham Festival.

HURLING fanatic JP McManus wants a GAA pitch in the grounds of the 40,000 sq ft mansion he is completing in Martinstown, Co Limerick.

IT’S thirty-two years since Limerick won a hurling All-Ireland. Another title would be like the Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Two Mile Chase all rolled into one for their most benevolent supporter, JP McManus.

DERMOT WELD, who introduced Refuse To Bend to racing at Gowran Park three years ago, produced another potentially high class colt at the Kilkenny track yesterday when Medicinal made an impressive debut.

GALWAY’S meeting at Ballybrit on Monday week, September 8, promises to be a red letter day in more ways than one.

WOULDN’T YOU AGREE, trained by Christy Roche for J P McManus, produced an immaculate display of jumping to win the Joseph J Grace Memorial Beginners Chase at Tralee yesterday.

Aidan O’Brien reported his Coral Eurobet Eclipse Stakes winner Hawk Wing none the worse for his Sandown exertions but will hang fire before making a decision on the Woodman colt’s next outing.