With one win, six top-10s and seven top 25s in his last 21 starts, the Waterford man has jumped from 63rd to 49th in the world today — a rise of 385 places in 12 months.

Covid-19 enforced postponements have given Irish players stuck in a rut that extra bit of headspace to ponder their future as the escape window looms on January 1.

Impressive winner of a bumper on debut at the Christmas meeting here last year, Elizabeth Stack’s mare ran well in two subsequent bumpers but was coming here off the back of a near-eight-month absence

A routine traffic stop in Midleton turned into a fast-moving garda investigation — and it has uncovered an international crime gang preying on health workers and defrauding the State

Power returned to 100th in the Official World Golf Ranking after tie for 12th with McDowell in the Bermuda Championship.

Riviere D’etel can make a winning debut over fences in the Return Of The Jumps Mares’ Beginners’ Chase which gets this afternoon’s card at Fairyhouse underway.

10 of the men who have talked the talk in Ryder Cup week

Three runs went to the final flight together but the winner, though not the quickest over the flight, picked up best of all under a strong ride

Johnson finished second behind Darren Clarke in the 2011 Open Championship

Daragh Ó Conchúir spent an afternoon at Leopardstown with some of racing's unsung heroes — the team of stalls handlers who get risk injury to get races on

Mallow's James Sugrue carded an opening one-over 72 and said he was taken aback by the appearance of the wind early

Staged on patios, pathways, swathes of lawn or even erupting through frothy planting, iron pieces are uniquely classy

Sheer Liss and Raven Rule can dominate the Ancient East Mares’ Maiden Hurdle

Champion jockey Colin Keane worked his magic on Bellagio Man to land the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction Maiden in Gowran Park, initiating a maiden double for trainer Ger Lyons.

The Milan gelding, a €58.000 purchase, proved three lengths superior to favourite Casey West

But Paul Townend’s only ride of the day made his supporters sweat in the closing stages

Whirling Dervish, who was once rated 100 on the level, took the Thursday’s feature, the two-mile-seven Thurles Handicap Hurdle, for trainer Johnny Levins and jockey Ricky Doyle.

The featured Grade 2 Ladbrokes Ireland Boyne Hurdle produced a superb finish, from which Beacon Edge emerged victorious, while dual Aintree Grand National winner Tiger Roll showed up well much of the way but eventually trailed in at the back of the ...

The documentary is ostensibly about a pop star in turmoil — but it goes to the heart of inequality, and the punishment meted out to women who dare take control of their own lives

It's a long time since heavy metal was any way fashionable, but there has long been a cohort of dedicated fans and quality bands lurking under the radar. A recent revival in Cork could see some of them emerge from the underground