Vincent O Brien

Tiger Roll became the first horse since the legendary Red Rum 45 years ago to win the Randox Aintree Grand National back to back with a thrilling succ(...)

O’Connell Street is abuzz with early-bird shoppers and rain-soaked commuters, but down a side street, past the odd lurking menacing figure or two, lie(...)

Aidan and Joseph O’Brien twice memorably combined to win York’s Juddmonte International although they will be rivals on Wednesday – each trying to sad(...)

On the back of last week’s controversial abandonment at Ballinrobe the feasibility of on-the-spot rearrangement of races rather than simply cancelling(...)

Horse racing is a mystery to most of us. We really don’t know what’s going on at all, at all inside their big brawny heads. At the Epsom Derby on TV3(...)

The death has taken place of TP Burns, one of the most successful and versatile jockeys in Ireland during the last century. He was 94. Burns was an i(...)

Cork Constitution 12 Lansdowne 32 Three tries in the third quarter propelled Lansdowne to a long-awaited Ulster Bank Bateman Cup title - the club’s (...)

Fragile coral in Ireland’s “deep Atlantic” and the issue of plastics in oceans will be explored in a new documentary which will be previewed at this w(...)

Auction Results Wednesday (August 30th), O’Reilly’s Auction Rooms, Francis Street, Dublin 8. Auction of jewellery, watches and silver. Lot 229, a rub(...)

  Monday (August 28th): Gavin Gardiner Ltd, auctioneers of fine modern and vintage sporting guns, rifles and accessories, auction of Modern &(...)