Former champion Ruby Walsh kept punters happy at a sunny Cork last night when doubling-up on well-backed Roman Flight and odds-on favourite Simenon in the opening two races.

DESCRIBED by her trainer as “an iron mare“, Blazing Tempo turned over odds-on favourite Noble Prince to land the Grade 2 Norman Grove Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday, providing Willie Mullins with the highlight of a superb four-timer.

Apprentices Sam James and Conor Hoban bagged doubles in Dundalk last night, James scoring on Iron Major and Blue Cross Boy while Hoban triumphed on Lord Kenmare and Tribes And Banner.

Graeme McDowell was happy to escape Bethpage with only superficial damage as he looks forward to returning to the scene of his greatest triumph.

If Giant’s Causeway was the iron horse of flat racing then it is no exaggeration to describe Un De Sceaux as the National Hunt equivalent.

Paul Nicholls is doubly represented intoday’s feature, the thetote.com Galway Plate, and the leading British trainer, who won this race in 2008 with the Ruby Walsh-ridden Oslot, can take the €177,000 winner’s prize with the JP McManus-owned Modus.

Eddie Lynam completed a double with Mr.Good Guy and Captain Power in Fairyhouse last night.

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Rory McIlroy will begin Friday’s PGA Championship second round five shots off the pace but satisfied to have come through a testing examination of the left ankle he injured just five weeks ago.

Fit-again Rory McIlroy will not add tournaments to his 2015 schedule in order to make up lost time for his injury-enforced absence this summer.

EGYPT: Egyptians in a Nile Delta province were left outraged after a cleric allegedly changed a line in the traditional Islamic call to prayer to mention Facebook.

Memories of the 1987 final at Tramore will be revived this week when the AIG Irish Close Championship takes place over the outstanding seaside layout for the third time.

Tullamore’s Stuart Grehan was declared the winner after torrential rain and southerly winds forecast to gust over 100kph saw the CityNorth Hotel sponsored East of Ireland Amateur Open reduced to 54 holes for the first time in its 75-year history.

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The cause of death yet to be established for the two bodies which were found in Askeaton Co Limerick, Sinn Fein’s Gerry Admas to meet with Prince Charles later today, The Mayor of Copenhagen has banned officials from flying with Ryanair and Ironmaiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has been given the all clear from cancer. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

Odds-on favourite Up For Review romped to an impressive win in the Grade 2 Dorans Pride Novice Hurdle, rescheduled from Limerick on Tuesday, in Punchestown yesterday.

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