Tag: Irish Examiner Sport
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Selections for Cork – July 25th 2025
5.05: PINTS IN PEACE (BEN COEN/DANIEL MCLOUGHLIN) 5.37: KANSAS (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.12: RED EVOLUTION – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 6.45: WASHINGTON STREET (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 7.20: ZARAGOZA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.55: SONORAN (GARY CARROLL/GER LYONS) 8.30: WHAT’S NEW (ANDREW J. SLATTERY/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Selections for Cork – May 20th 2025
5.15: ROGUE LEGEND (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 5.50: JORGE ALVARES (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 6.25: CARRIGAN’S GROVE – EW – (GARY CARROLL/PAT FLYNN) 6.50: TWOTOLOSE – W/O FAV – (BEN COEN/DANIEL MCLOUGHLIN) 7.20: HIGHTIMEYOUWON (JACK KEARNEY/STEPHEN THORNE) 7.50: TSWALU (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: GARDONE – EW – (BILLY LEE/ERIC MCNAMARA)
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Selections for Cork – Mar. 20th 2025
1.55: BLAKE – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/NOEL MEADE) 2.27: CRAMERS VALLEY – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 3.02: PROMONTORY – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/SARAH J. CONNELL) 3.37: JACOVEC CAVERN – EW – (NEIL PRENDERGAST (7)/PAUL HENNESSY) 4.12: SIR BOB – EW – (MARK WALSH/ROBERT TYNER) 4.47: CULLIG – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/PAT FOLEY) 5.22:…
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Selections for Cork – Sept. 26th 2023
1.20: SWEETEST (JACK CLEARY (7)/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 1.55: KIKI ROBERTS (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: ERISKAY – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 3.05: STARNIGHT – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 3.40: EZELIYA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.15: CLEVER AND COOL – EW – (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 4.50: CATENA ZEPATA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.25: BREEZY…
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Motorsport in mourning following Breen’s untimely death
The Motorsport fraternity in Ireland and much further afield has been plunged into mourning following the tragic and untimely loss of World Rally Championship competitor Craig Breen. When I was growing up, it was the likes of Austin Mac Hale, Bertie Fisher and former RTE Sports presenter Michael Lyster – who drove in partnership with…
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Selections for Cork – Apr. 9th 2023
1.10: LUMINOUS LIGHT – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ANTHONY MCCANN) 1.45: ALL ABOUT LUCY – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 2.20: SOLE PRETENDER (MICHAEL O’CONNOR (5)/NORMAN LEE) 2.55: LARGY DEBUT (DONAGH MEYLER/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.30: FERONILY (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 4.05: FLYING SCOTSMAN – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.40: ATLANTIAN – EW – (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN)…
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Selections for Cork – Mar. 23rd 2023
2.05: CALICO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: KNOCKRAHA LASS – W/O FAV – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/BENNY WALSH) 3.15: CROWSATEDAPPLETART (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/MICK WINTERS) 3.50: FRANCISCAN ROCK (RICKY DOYLE/MICHAEL MORRIS) 4.25: KINGSTON KID – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 5.00: PURE NOTIONS (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.30: BLIZZARD OF OZ (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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It’s a fairly safe bet he didn’t watch Italia ’90!
Italia ’90 – even now, mention of the words together conjures so many memories. Pat Bonner’s grimace before that booming kickout against the Dutch, Genoa, Penalties, Bonner again, David O’Leary, the pub scene from The Snapper. Now read on… Another recollection from that glorious summer prompted what you are about to intake. A proclamation by…
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Selections for Cork – Sept. 7th 2022
4.05: TARAWA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.40: GAMBLE VELOCI (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.10: HEARTRATE (DECLAN MCDONOGH/KIERAN COTTER) 5.45: IVA BATT – EW – (GARY CARROLL/JOE MURPHY) 6.15: KING OF SCOTIA (LEIGH ROCHE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 6.45: SPIRIT GAME (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 7.15: MIRACLES IN MAY – EW – (BEN COEN/MARK CAHILL)
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Selections for Cork – June 2022
5.05: SILMANIYA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 5.40: DE VELARA (WAYNE LORDAN/LIAM BROWNE) 6.10: PEARL PALINKA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.40: GEOCENTRIC (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.10: THUNDER KISS (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.40: SAFECRACKER (SHANE KELLY/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 8.10: GOLDEN DAYS (RONAN WHELAN/TRACEY COLLINS)