Irish racing awaits clarity on return date

Hopes that live horse racing action in this country might return in the coming weeks may not have been entirely dashed by An Taoiseach’s address to the nation on Friday evening last, but those tens of thousands of people whose livelihoods, directly and indirectly, are dependent upon the sport returning were certainly none the wiser nor better off after the speech.

But that seemed to be a general consensus as the government gave the nation permission to take a tentative first step back towards normality.