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Twelve months ago almost to the day Bishopstown retained their senior status with a one point victory over Ballinhassig after extra-time in a replay, so it is some achievement that on Sunday they will play in their very first county senior final.
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Food

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For the truly hungry it's an aroma that's right up there with the smell of sausages frying on a camp fire.
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Features

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Business & Training

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Stream Solutions, Ireland's Apple experts are proud to be leading the way for the iPad for education and learning revolution, collaborating with many schools and colleges around the county.
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Motoring

Jaguar F-type
Jaguar has officially revealed the all-new F-TYPE.
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Inside Track

Longchamp

Inside Track Posted on 02/10/2012 by Eddie Goggin
@corkindo
Hello punters! This weekend sees the running at Longchamp of one of the season's most sought after races, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, when the cream of all the best horses that went before us this season will be seeking to put the fitting consolidation on their career cards, for this race has long since been the proving ground for many of the stars of the past. The general history of the race has been filled with a series of brilliant wins, and quite a few hard luck stories, for many of racing's so-called legends have bitten the dust while trying to add this grand prize to their already well-stocked victory cupboard.
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  • The everyday life of a jockey

    Inside Track Posted on 27/09/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! The everyday life of a jockey, although appearing to be very exciting at times, tends, surprisingly, over a long career, for most jockeys anyway, to have a lot more downs in it than ups.
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  • Going to the well too often

    Inside Track Posted on 20/09/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! You will all have heard the old saying about going to the well too often with the jug, and on Saturday last it came to pass where the 'wonder horse' Camelot was concerned. All last week leading up to the race, pundits, myself included, were favouring the Ballydoyle horse to go on and complete that mythical prize of British racing, the Triple Crown of 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby, and St Leger, with the last race of the three being at Saturday's Doncaster meeting.
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  • The St Leger

    Inside Track Posted on 13/09/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! The St Leger meeting is the most important fixture in the Doncaster racing calendar during the entire flat racing season. The St Leger race, run on the Saturday, is the obvious highlight of this fine racing festival and is the last classic race of the five English Classic Races.
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  • Questions for heroes

    Inside Track Posted on 06/09/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    By the looks of it, and on all recent rumours coming out of the racing grapevine, it does appear that the brilliant Frankel, one of the few horses that could be said to become a legend while still racing, will not now be going to France for the 'Arc de Triomphe' towards the end of this season, his connections seeming to prefer taking in the Champion Stakes, which is run over Frankel's home course at Newmarket.
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  • Henry Cecil's remarkable record

    Inside Track Posted on 30/08/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! The brilliant win of Frankel in last week's Juddmonte International at York, really confirms the sheer mastery and dominance that this horse has enjoyed ever since he first looked through a bridle.
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  • New kids on the block

    Inside Track Posted on 23/08/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
    @deshocks
    Hello punters! In the flat racing scene, one of the new 'kids on the block' who has really blossomed over the last couple of seasons as a major talent is Silvestre de Sousa. This young man proved that he had arrived last season, when he finished second in the jockey's table to the champion Paul Hanagan, with a grand total of 161 winners.
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  • Jockeying for position

    Inside Track Posted on 15/08/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! Every flat racing season, about this time, there will be a small group of jockeys, well, those who are lying at or near the top section of the jockey's table anyway,  planning how to make a concerted attack on the elusive prize that awaits the jockey who leads the table at the end of this season proper, which will officially end in the early part of November.
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  • Course closures

    Inside Track Posted on 09/08/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! Racing and racecourses in Britain received a timely wake-up call over last weekend, when it was confirmed that two courses, Hereford and Folkestone were set to close at the end of this year.
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  • Racing bans

    Inside Track Posted on 02/08/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! The recent 28-day ban handed out to flat racing rider Lee Newman for being careless in riding out a finish at Newbury has brought again to the surface discussion about the many problems of a few years ago, when allegations of race-fixing etc were dominating the headlines throughout the racing game.
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  • Flat racing

    Inside Track Posted on 26/07/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! Many times during recent flat racing seasons, I have been asked for some information about the career of the current champion jockey of Britain, Paul Hanagan, who has won back to back titles in 2010-11.
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  • Prize funds are a bone of contention

    Inside Track Posted on 19/07/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! Last season, the prize money at certain graded horse-race meetings in Britain became a rather large bone of contention amongst the owners, trainers, and jockeys, with a number of them letting their feelings be known to the powers that delegate what amount of money are allocated, with better funds going to the upmarket meetings like Ascot, Sandown, Newbury, and the like.
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  • Talking points from Sandown

    Inside Track Posted on 12/07/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    Hello punters! The Eclipse Stakes at Sandown last Saturday again gave us its customary talking points, on a course where the going looked to be much worse than the the advertised forecast of soft. To me, remembering all the rain that was forecast in the south of England last week, the surface looked to be very dead indeed, as evidenced by the times of the earlier races on the day, when most of the horses appeared to be making hard work of the final Sandown hill, and finishing very tired.
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  • Curragh atmosphere 'a little surreal'

    Inside Track Posted on 04/07/2012 by Eddie Goggin
    @corkindo
    The atmosphere at the Curragh for the Irish Derby on last Saturday evening was a little surreal, to say the least, for the idea that this leading Irish Classic would be the very last race at an Irish evening meeting was hard to fathom.
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  • A hiding at Ascot

    Inside Track Posted on 28/06/2012 by Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
    @deshocks
    The general feedback from last week's Royal Ascot meeting was that, for the most part, the punters took their usual hiding in the betting markets. I do know that there were a fair few winners over the week who would qualify as favourites, but when one looks at the likes of Frankel, who doddled in at 1/10, and Black Caviar, who also won at very prohibitive odds, you would have to say that neither of the two appealed as a viable betting proposition for the vast majority of the punting public.
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