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Selections for Leopardstown – Aug. 20th 2026
4.56: SO LOVELY (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.27: SOVEREIGNS JOY – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 6.00: BEAR RIGHT (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 6.30: ABBOTSFORD (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 7.00: PAVILLION END – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/CHARLES O’BRIEN) 7.30: PORT ARTHUR – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/MICHAEL GRASSICK) 8.00: TACHOS – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD)
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Selections for Killarney – Aug. 20th 2026
4.35: HARMANI (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.08: GINO BELLO – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/PAT FOLEY) 5.43: DIAMOND DU BERLAIS (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.13: BALLYSTONE – EW – (JOSH WILLIAMSON (3)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.45: TROPICAL IMAGE – EW – (GARY NOONAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 7.15: ILLTAKEHIMMYSELF – EW – (CAL HOGAN (5)/ERIC MCNAMARA) 7.45: BALLYBRITTAS – EW – (SHANE…
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Manchester United full Fixture List for 2026/’27 Season
https://www.manutd.com/en/matches/mens-team/fixtures
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Premier League opening weekend Fixtures 2026/’27
Defending Champions Arsenal get the new season underway on Friday night, taking on newly promoted Coventry City as Frank Lampard also returns as a top flight manager. https://www.premierleague.com/en/matches/premier-league/2026-27/matchweek-1#:~:text=Live%20blog,Chelsea
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 19th 2026
5.07: COTSWOLD BLUE (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.42: TASMANIAN GIRL (KEVIN HEALY (7)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 6.17: KISUTON ENKI (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.48: GEORGINA’S JET – EW – (JACK GILLIGAN (5)/PAUL GILLIGAN) 7.18: MIDNIGHT EAGLE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.48: SALLAP – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (5)/SAM CURLING) 8.18: RUN FOR FUN (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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There’s back handed comfort but mostly frustration in knowing it’s not just us
In conversation with a publican friend of mine in Co Longford over the weekend, maybe naturally, talk drifted to the multiple tragedies which had occurred during the past week. Besides the unspeakable grief and heartache which those effected have been left to navigate forever more, the point was made that we Irish and rural Ireland…
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Selections for Roscommon – Aug. 18th 2026
5.10: KAKORI – EW – (JULIAN PIETROPAOLO (4*)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.45: CASHEL QUEEN – EW – (PADDY HARNETT (5)/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 6.05: ORISTOWN BOY – EW – (RORY MULLIGAN (5)/JOE MURRAY) 6.45: STOOKED (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.15: EARLS – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.45: ALMAZAAN (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 8.15: LADY PLIMSOLL (JAMIE POWELL/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN)
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Podcast Episode: Aug. 16th – Tributes And Tragedy In Irish Sport
Pip: Boylan Talks Sport this week is the kind of reading that stops you mid-scroll — the sort where you realize pretty quickly that sport is just the frame, and the people inside it are the whole picture. Mara: That's exactly the territory Brendan covers here — tributes to Irish sports figures who shaped their…
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Selections for Tramore – Aug. 16th 2026
1.45: SPEED FOR FUN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.20: SURVIVING MURMURISK – EW – (CONOR STONE-WALSH/JIMMY BARCOE) 2.55: LADY LENA (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.30: FUTURE PROSPECT (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.05: POURQUOI POI – EW – (DAN KING/PAUL FLYNN) 4.35: POLLY POPPINS – EW – (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE/BERNARD CROWLEY) 5.05: MYLUCKYMAKER (FINN BRICKLEY (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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Selections for Curragh – Aug. 16th 2026
1.35: ALRASHDEYA – EW – (OISIN MURPHY/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 2.10: THE PIPEMAN (WAYNE LORDAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 2.45: TOFINO – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.20: THOMAS CHIPENDALE (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.55: LIBERATION DATE – EW – (ORLA TYNAN (7)/JACK FOLEY) 4.25: A BOY NAMED SUSIE (OISIN MURPHY/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 4.55: GRAYROBIN – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/KATE MCGIVERN) 5.25:…
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