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SATURDAY  

Two meetings this evening, with the first three-year-old hurdle of the season one of the highlights on the card at Roscommon.

It’s day six at Ballybrit and Capri gets the nap to take the one-mile maiden for trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Seamie Heffernan.

It’s TheTote.com Galway Hurdle day in Ballybrit and Tigris River looks the value option to land the €177,000 winner’s prize in the feature.

A twenty-runner maiden opens tonight’s card at Naas, and Sheila Lavery’s Mr Scarlet gets the nap to set punters off on the right foot.

Fairyhouse hosts a flat card this evening, and the nap goes to Swish, who should take a deal of beating in the fillies’ maiden, over six furlongs.

Our picks of what to watch on TV.

From some of the world’s greatest galleries and museums, to the treasure-filled bookshops of Charing Cross Road, London is a city packed with choice for a city break says Suzanne Harrington.

It’s entirely possible to make savings while on your dream holiday with a little bit of forward planning, writes Ciara McDonnell.    

Japanese raider A Shin Hikari can justify odds-on favouritism in this afternoon’s featured Prince of Wales’s Stakes on day two of Royal Ascot.

Arguably the best week of racing of the year gets underway this afternoon, when Royal Ascot kicks off with the Queen Anne Stakes. 

Heartbreak City should open his account over hurdles in the first division of the TipperaryRaces.ie Maiden Hurdle in Tipperary tonight.

Unions have welcomed plans to make sure staff receive tips left by customers in bars and restaurants.

A New York restaurant has banned tipping. Instead, it’ll raise prices and the cash will go to the staff. So what do Irish eateries make of it all? And do we even have a tipping culture here? Joe McNamee settles the bill.

Brilliant TV to check out this week.

Our expert racing columnist Ruby Walsh picks his 10 horses to watch for 2016.

It’s a big weekend for the Graham Wylie novices, with Bellshill and Yorkhill both in action in Grade One company, and Yorkhill plays his hand first, in this afternoon’s Tolworth Hurdle at Sandown.

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