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Horse Racing

Jessica hoping to build on her proud Punchestown memories

WHEN it comes to Punchestown festival memories, Jessica Harrington is at the top of the tree. It’s been over 25 years since she saddled her first runner at her local festival but it’s a long time before that which gives the Moone trainer her first ...

21 Apr 2017 at 15:39

Horse Racing

'I had a great love of horses and racing from a young age' Richie Galway

These days Richie Galway is as synonymous with Punchestown as much as General Manager, Dick O’Sullivan, but how many are aware that Wexford native Richie is also the proud holder of a Kildare club intermediate football medal? Racing Manager at ...

21 Apr 2017 at 15:24

Horse Racing

Loughlins of Naas, share their family memories of Punchestown

For families in Naas, the Punchestown Racing Festival is as important a tradition as Christmas, and you don't get more 'Naas' than Gerry Loughlin. The youngest of seven children, he still lives in the house he was born in at Millbrook, Naas, ...

21 Apr 2017 at 16:00

Arts & Entertainment

Get Bollinger ready for Punchestown 2017

The celebrity judges have been announced for the Bollinger Best Dressed Lady Competition at this year’s Punchestown Festival which will take place from Tuesday April 25 next. Judges include Xposé presenter Glenda Gilson, fashion and ...

27 Mar 2017 at 13:23

GAA

All systems go for Dick and his team at Punchestown 2017

Cast your mind back to 2002, the year the euro currency made its first appearance, and much more. It was the year Fianna Fáil and PDs were re-elected to government; Geraldine Kennedy became the first female editor of the Irish ...

23 Apr 2017 at 13:23

Horse Racing

After a 22 year wait, trip of a lifetime finally comes to pass

My love of horse racing was with me from an early age. Growing up living near Gilltown Stud, where some of the best race horses of the world are retired, it was practically a foregone conclusion that the racing passion would ...

23 Apr 2017 at 13:12

Sport

PHOTO GALLERY: Launch of Punchestown Festival 2017

A great turn-out at the launch of the Punchestown Festival 2017, held at the magnificently revamped headquarters of the National Hunt last evening (Wednesday April 19). Present were Punchestown personnel along with top ...

20 Apr 2017 at 15:59

Horse Racing

Revamped Punchestown gets the thumbs-up at official launch

The 2017 Punchestown Festival was officially launched last evening (Wednesday April 19) at the Headquarters of National Hunt, attended by the Punchestown team led by Chairman, David Mongey, General Manager Dick ...

20 Apr 2017 at 13:54

Horse Racing

Forty page Punchestown Supplement Special

Free with this week’s Leinster Leader, forty page Punchestown Supplement with news, views, interviews, a look ahead to the biggest racing festival of the year, with €2.9m in prize money. Dick O’Sullivan and ...

18 Apr 2017 at 11:24

Kildare Sport

Day 4 Punchestown Racing Results: Friday, April 28

7.45pm: GVA Donal O'Buachalla Property Advisors Flat Race 1 Canardier 2 Its All Guesswork 3 General Consensus 7.10pm: Donohoe's Marquees Novice Hurdle 1 Montalbano 2 Riven Light 3 Chirico Vallis 6.40pm: ...

28 Apr 2017 at 16:55

Horse Racing

From the bunker to the saddle

Packing in golf to take up riding National Hunt horses is the roughly equivalent to shifting your musical preferences from classical music to the punk rock genre. But that’s what Naas man Richie Walsh ...

22 Apr 2017 at 19:19

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