IT’S not often you get bales of hay in Ballsbridge, but thousands of hungry horses have galloped to Dublin 4 for today’s Dublin Horse Show.

SOMETHING for everyone may be a cliche, but Special Olympics organisers have even managed to arrange a treat that could coax Eddie Irvine out of retirement.

WHAT a pity the clash of Venus Williams and Elena Bovina didn’t happen at the beginning of the Trilogy Challenge instead of almost at the end by which stage the crowd, who had paid a lot of money for the privilege of sitting in the Simmonscourt arena at the RDS, had become accustomed to one-sided matches favouring the Americans.