KIEREN FALLON continued to profit from Ryan Moore’s misfortune as he made an extremely rare but nonetheless successful visit to Brighton yesterday.

Mouse Morris’ Rathlin sprang a 16-1 shock when turning over hot-pot Unika La Reconce in the Munster Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

They came last in 2007, but a new album marks 24 wonderful years on the road, says Siobhán Cronin

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Colm Murphy’s Quito De La Roque, a horse who had been struggling to find form, came back to his best at Thurles yesterday when landing the Grade 2 Matty Ryan Memorial Kinloch Brae Chase.

The superb fourth series of Breaking Bad begins on TG4 on Thursday.

IT MIGHT seem bit of paradox, but the best way to see Ireland’s raw, elemental natural beauty is to leave the place behind you, in your wake.

You know the way you often hear Aidan O’Brien talking about horses he has in major races that like to bowl along in front.

Appointed retained jockey for Prince Khalid Abdullah this week, James Doyle celebrated in style when guiding the Clive Brittain-trained Rizeena to victory in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

I have no runners today or tomorrow but will have five at Naas on Monday with Bendzoldan probably represents my best chance of a winner in the seven-furlong handicap.

Eoghan Cormican takes a look at each county ahead of the club championship.

The recent controversy concerning Sean Cavanagh has again brought the issue of cynical play in Gaelic games into the national spotlight.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s final studio album, and fans aren’t just able to buy a new “super deluxe” boxset to celebrate the occasion. They can also buy the childhood home of late frontman Kurt Cobain, complete with his mattress.

Kims Dream, trained in Clonroche, County Wexford by Noel Dooly, completed a tremendous hat-trick when justifying 7/4 favouritism in the Keen Print Handicap in Roscommon last night.

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It certainly wasn’t your traditional county final celebration but Podge Collins wouldn’t have it any other way.

Majestic Timeline has put County Roscommon handler Adrian Joyce on the map in his first season as a trainer.

It’s a fair way from Carrigtwohill, Co Cork to Dundalk, but Timjoe can justify another trip up the motorway by landing the concluding Fund Raising Made Easy At |Dundalk Handicap on the all-weather tonight.

Mystic Menu, once again, lays out some predictions and identifies trends for the coming year in Irish food.

Scotland’s Jamie Savage proved a cool head is half the battle as he took advantage of a series of mistakes by Ireland’s leading contenders to snatch a two-shot win in the Irish Amateur Open at a wet and windy Royal Dublin.