Carberry in court over 'flight fire'

Irish champion jump jockey Paul Carberry will appear in court today over an incident on a flight from Spain to Dublin.

The Grand National winner allegedly set fire to a friend’s newspaper while on an Aer Lingus service from Malaga earlier this month.

The 31-year-old, who rode 100 winners in 2002, is due at Swords District Court in Dublin.

Carberry, of Rathfeigh, Tara, Co Meath, appeared at the court last week and was charged with engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour under the Air Navigation and Transport Acts 1973 and 1998 while on board the flight.

Carberry won the Grand National in 1999 on Bobbyjo, a horse trained by his father Tommy, who himself was a National-winning rider.

He was the Irish Champion Jockey in 2002, where he became the first man since Charlie Swan in 1996/1997 to ride a century of winners.