THE 30th player in this week’s Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond will receive in excess of €30,000, comfortably more than the total prize fund of €26,000 on offer in the Irish PGA Championship which starts at the European Club in Co Wicklow this morning.

BALLYBUNION, one of the world’s finest links courses, will be the ideal home to the 13th AIB Irish Seniors Open which begins on Friday.

GARDAÍ suspect the remains of a body found dumped in a rural lane in north Dublin are that of missing man Peter Gunn.

FORMER Walker Cup player Noel Fox, fellow Dubliner Eamonn Brady and David Mortimer, the Galway-born Newlands club professional, battled back into contention for places in the European Tour School at San Roque next week with excellent rounds in yesterday’s second day of pre-qualifying at the Costa Ballena course near Cadiz in the south of Spain.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON doesn’t fancy a tipple but if he did, he believes the publicans of Ireland would owe him a barrel of beer.

A jury in a Dublin murder trial has heard a .38 calibre colt revolver recovered by gardaí contained no fingerprints, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

RUSSIAN BLUE can make the most of a drop in trip to land the Listed Cork Stakes at Fairyhouse this evening.

Gardaí in Dublin are advising motorists of a serious oil spillage on the North Road /Ashbourne Road (N2) between Broc Inn and Kilshane Cross and turning left into St Margarets.

A MASSIVE seizure of €1.2m ecstasy tablets over the weekend — thought to be the biggest on record — has underlined a major increase in drug hauls so far this year.

Four men are still being held for questioning after drug seizures in Dublin yesterday.