Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Racing Correspondent

Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column.

Galway boss says mixed cards make a ‘key difference’ to festival’s popular appeal

Michael Moloney argues that mix of flat and jumps races helps draw people and would work at other meetings

Joseph O’Brien emulates elites in completing Oaks double with different fillies

Johanna Walsh lands Curragh classic after Epsom heroine Thundering On ruled out

Aidan O’Brien aiming to bridge 10-year gap in Ascot’s King George

Top French stars Calandagan and Goliath on course to try land midsummer highlight again

Johanna Walsh wins Juddmonte Irish Oaks at the Curragh

Trainer lands first Irish Oaks success with 7/2 shot under jockey Dylan Browne McMonagle

Bolger and Regan bid to disrupt Classic status quo with Oaks hope Sparan Nua

Joseph O’Brien’s Thundering On will try to become the 17th filly to complete Epsom-Curragh Oaks double

A hard sell to the public if it looks like British racing is fighting the bookies’ battle

Bitterness at affordability checks for gamblers clashes with popular support for putting manners on gaming corporations

Jim Bolger aiming for more Classic glory as Sparan Nua added to Irish Oaks

Trio of fillies supplemented into Saturday’s Curragh Classic at cost of €50,000 each

Irish raiders hope to storm to Paris glory in Bastille Day Group One highlight

British champion jockey Oisín Murphy returns home to Kerry to ride at Killarney for first time

Irish tracks braced for potential impact of British racing’s affordability checks

Fozzy Stack secures first European Group One victory as Thesecretadversary lands Prix Jean Prat

Stack turns to Soumillon as trainer chases first European Group One success at Deauville

Cheltenham festival-winning trainer Pat Kelly’s licence suspended with immediate effect by IHRB

O’Brien hoping for bittersweet July Cup victory with Mission Central

Odds on Precise comes up short in Falmouth Stakes as Colin Keane wins on Blue Bolt

Legitimate questions about IHRB’s governance restructuring require answers

Regulator’s head of governance & legal is the latest official to leave with position scrapped

Aidan O’Brien aiming for record sixth July Cup with gelding Mission Central

Top Royal Ascot sprinters in line for Group One showdown in Europe’s top sprint prize

Dermot Weld has Group One ambitions with progressive Purview

Curragh ‘cult figure’ Big Gossey secures 10th success at Irish racing’s HQ

Benvenuto Cellini puts Epsom furore behind him to secure Irish Derby glory

Aidan O’Brien saddles 1-2-3 at the Curragh to win Ireland’s premier Classic for an 18th time

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