Affordale Fury was the 150-1 runner-up in the three-mile Albert Bartlett Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham in March 2023, but his career since has included breaks of 438 and 241 days and Sunday's race was just his fifth chase start outside novice company. It was also his fourth outing since October, though, offering hope that his former fragility may now be behind him, and he set a decent gallop from the off despite persistently jumping to his right.
If whinging was an Olympic sport, we Gaels would be unbeatable Often in the hostelries around Thurles before big Munster championship games you'll hear it observed that Nietzsche's oeuvre is a latticework of recurring ideas and radical rejections. And yet it is Nietzsche's doctrine of eternal recurrence that best illustrates his GAA-ness. The notion that time is a squared circle, that everything repeats ad nauseam. But most especially the GAA news cycle.
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian intelligence had observed that Belarus was deploying equipment in Belarusian settlements near the border, including on residential buildings to assist Russian forces in carrying out their attacks. Antennae and other equipment are located on the roofs of ordinary five-storey apartment buildings, which help guide Shaheds' [Russian drones] to targets in our western regions, he said. This is an absolute disregard for human lives, and it is important that Minsk stops playing with this, he added.
Zelenskyy accuses the Russian leadership of using every opportunity' to inflict greater suffering' on Ukraine. Russia has carried out drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital Kyiv on the eve of a key meeting between the United States and Ukrainian leaders, killing at least one person and leaving a third of the city without heat, according to local authorities. Russian ballistic missiles and drones rocked Kyiv from the early hours of Saturday morning, where an air alert was in place for nearly 10 hours.
There's an interview that stands out for Marcus Horan from his very early days with TG4 after he crossed the rugby Rubicon from former player to pitchside interviewer.
Up to 40,000 children waiting as Government plans major expansion of childcare services Focus on large-scale services with an average of 100 places for children aged one to three State will tender for operators to run the facilities, with both new and existing providers eligible
They will flock in their thousands to Leopardstown tomorrow for a look at Galopin Des Champs with Willie Mullins' superstar often saving his scintillating best for the Foxrock track in recent seasons.
Ukraine's leading anti-corruption agencies said they were investigating alleged vote-buying by members of parliament, and that security services were hindering efforts to conduct searches. The probe, announced December 27, was the latest in a series of investigations by the two agencies -- the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine -- that have roiled politics inside Ukraine.
We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level - with President Trump in the near future. A lot can be decided before the New Year," Zelensky wrote on X on Friday morning after receiving a briefing from his top negotiator, Rustem Umerov. Ukrainian officials tell Axios that meeting will take place on Sunday. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The UK is on course to overtake Japan and become the world's fifth-largest economy by the end of the next decade, according to new long-term projections from Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). In its latest global outlook, the think tank forecasts that Britain's gross domestic product will rise from just under $4 trillion in 2025 to around $6.8 trillion by 2040, lifting the country back into the global
In Pagliara dei Marsi, an ancient rural village on the slopes of Mount Girifalco in Italy's Abruzzo region, cats vastly outnumber people. They weave through the narrow streets, wander in and out of homes, and stretch out on walls overlooking the mountains. Their purrs are a consistent hum in the quiet that has come with decades of population decline. But less so since March, when rapturous celebrations marked a rare occurrence: the birth of a child.
High-speed rail systems are found all over the globe. Japan's bullet train began operating in 1964. China will have 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of high-speed track by the end of 2025. The fastest train in Europe goes almost 200 mph (320 kph). Yet high-speed rail remains absent from most of the U.S. Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track.
Dolores McNamara was enjoying a night out with her friends when the EuroMillions draw flashed up on the TV screen. The multi-million lottery bonanza was relatively new in Ireland in the summer of 2005, and the last thing Ms McNamara expected was for her impulse buy of a €2 ticket to pay off. Once the draw was announced, things would never be the same for Dolores McNamara, now a jaw-dropping €115 million better off.
Confucius, China's most famous philosopher, was asked by a student if there was one word that could represent a guiding principle in life. His answer was "shu" - meaning a reciprocal arrangement exists between yourself and others, so consider their needs when you do something. It's a good rule of thumb for any individual, but governments should particularly bear it in mind, because a mutual connection exists between a government and its electorate that any administration ignores at its peril.
Alan Walsh, in his 40s, was riding the e-scooter when it was involved in the crash at the junction of Manor Hill and Hennessy's Road in Waterford City at about 11 am on Christmas Day. He was taken to University Hospital Waterford where he died. His funeral mass is to be held on January 3 at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterford.
Gardaí have received over 2,500 reports of drug-related intimidation in the past five years, with a senior detective saying that violence linked to the drug trade impacts every parish in Ireland. Crime statistics also show that drug debt enforcement has risen by 27pc since 2021, with criminals mainly using threats to kill, blackmail and attacks on property to intimidate victims.
