EASTERN LIGHT is the nap choice to get off the mark at the fifth attempt in the Irish Stallion Farms' EBF Maiden at Bellewstown tonight.

CORK CITY FORAS CO-OP’S hopes of launching a promotion push in the second half of the season received a setback at Turner’s Cross last night, as Limerick boosted their own chances of going up by taking all three points in a thoroughly entertaining game.

HAPPY days for the Dubs, then, right? Twenty-one points scored, an eight-point buffer at the final whistle and only one goal conceded after the five they leaked against Meath.

MOONLIT Garden can land the Listed Danehill Dancer Stakes at Tipperary tomorrow.

RYAN McMENAMIN and Davy Harte have both been omitted from the Tyrone team for Saturday’s Ulster SFC semi-final against Down due to hamstring and calf injuries respectively.

GER LYONS, whose horses are now threatening to hit top gear, was on the mark at Cork last night when Rain Delayed took the featured Listed Cork Stakes over six furlongs.

TRALEE CBS opened their Corn Uí Mhuirí campaign with a comprehensive victory over Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne at Annascaul yesterday.

DAVID HENRY was giving Cheshire cats a good run for their money on Saturday evening and it was hard to begrudge the Dublin captain his beaming smile after such a seminal afternoon.

GALWAY football fans will have to wait at least another week to find out the identity of their new manager.

NEW Mayo senior football boss James Horan yesterday outlined his plans to restore Mayo to former glories after a disastrous championship season which saw them exit the 2010 championship before the end of June.

TOMMY STACK’S Machaputo, a big disappointment when well fancied on his debut at Down Royal – but a major order morning-prices – strolled to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden at Tipperary last night.

OFFALY football manager, Tom Cribbin, has questioned the decision to redevelop O’Connor Park in Tullamore when there are no adequate training facilities for the county’s representative teams.

GALWAY minor football boss Gerry Fahy has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Joe Kernan as senior manager following Monday’s submission of nominations from the clubs.

THE Monaghan county board management committee met last night in Truagh to consider demands made by Seamus McEnaney which will play a crucial role in determining whether he will remain in charge of the county’s senior footballers for a seventh year.

MAYO GAA chiefs will announce their new senior football boss after a county board meeting in McHale Park, Castlebar tonight.

FORMER Monaghan boss Seamus McEnaney yesterday refused to rule out a sensational return to the helm.

FOR most of the last eight years, the rather dismissive perception of Dublin has been that of a big fish in Leinster’s pond but one that shrank to the proportions of a relative minnow when it migrated into the deeper waters of the All-Ireland series.

KERRY boss Jack O’Connor admits Kerry are in transition but insists he still has the enthusiasm after being appointed for a third term on Monday night.

THE truth, as Malachy O’Rourke will happily observe, can often be stranger than fiction.

THEY may have been impossible to separate last Sunday, but Cork and Kerry have enjoyed very different fortunes this week with Jack O’Connor forced to delay naming his starting 15 until hours before Sunday’s game.