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Chacun Pour Soi is on course to try and repeat his success in last year’s Paddy’s Rewards Club Chase on Day Two of Leopardstown’s Christmas programme. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Chacun Pour Soi poised for festive return at Leopardstown

Willie Mullins is aiming for more festive dominance with Chacun Pour Soi set to be part of the champion trainer’s hugely powerful squad over the Chris(...)

Noel Meade, a former chairman of the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association, has urged that the identity of the seized drugs be revealed quickly. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Uncertainty lingers around timeline for details on drugs seized from Kildare

It is unclear when the outcome of test results on drugs seized at a property in Co Kildare last week will emerge. As part of an ongoing investigation(...)

Patrick Mullins onboard Echoes in Rain comes home to win at Punchestown Racing Festival in Co Kildare last April. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
All eyes on Willie Mullins’s entries as spectators return to Punchestown

Normal service could resume for Willie Mullins in Sunday’s Unibet Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown. The champion trainer enjoyed a remarkable run of do(...)

Mark Adair’s side injury proved costly as Namibia punished the Irish death bowling to secure the win that enables them progress to the Super 12s. Photograph: Pankaj Nangia/Inpho
Namibia shock Ireland to qualify for World T20 Super 12s

Namibia 126-2 (18.3 overs) (Gerhard Erasmus 53*, David Wiese 28*; Curtis Campher 2-14) defeat Ireland 125-8 (20 overs) (Paul Stirling 38, Kevin O’Brie(...)

Rachael Blackmore urges Honeysuckle on to win the Mares Hurdle race at last year’s Cheltenham Racing Festival in Gloucestershire. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Getty Images
Cheltenham: Line-up of favourites leave bookies dreading big day one payout

Bookmakers reckon they’ve got enough on their side to prevent a day one festival bonanza for punters at Cheltenham on Tuesday. A series of short-pric(...)

Honeysuckle, ridden by Rachael Blackmore, wins last year’s Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown. Photograph: Tom O’Hanlon/Inpho
Unbeaten Honeysuckle poised for a stiff test in Dublin Festival highlight

Rachael Blackmore and Henry De Bromhead have the two big race favourites for this weekend’s Dublin Racing Festival in Leopardstown but also have both (...)

Barry Geraghty aboard Epatante celebrate their victory in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham. Photograph: Simon Cooper/PA Wire.
Epatante delivers champion performance at Cheltenham

JP McManus celebrated his 69th birthday with a perfect Unibet Champion Hurdle present from Epatante on Day One of the 2020 Cheltenham festival. No own(...)

Paul Townend rides Al Boum Photo to win the Gold Cup on the final day of last year’s Cheltenham festival. Photograph: Getty Images
Cheltenham Festival 2020: Day-by-day guide

Tuesday 1.30 Skybet Supreme Novices Hurdle Abacadabras (G Elliott) 4-1 Asterion Forlonge (W Mullins) 5-2 Berkshire Royal (W Mullins) 33-1 Captain Gu(...)

Rachael Blackmore after winning the featured PCI Irish Champion Hurdle on Honeysuckle on the first day of the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown. Photograph: Tom O’Hanlon/Inpho
Rachael Blackmore lights up day one at Leopardstown with Grade One double

There were rare scenes on day one of the Dublin Racing Festival as jockey Rachael Blackmore and the unbeaten mare Honeysuckle scooped the featured PCI(...)

Helen Steele, artist and fashion designer, at home in Emyvale, Co Monaghan. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Helen Steele’s designs on Dunnes Stores

Artist, designer and printmaker Helen Steele is usually photographed in paint-spattered dungarees, brush in hand in her busy studio where she develops(...)

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