It was an emotional day at Punchestown Racecourse today as Irish racing attempted to get back to some form of normality less than 24 hours after the funeral of jockey Michael O'Sullivan.

There will be a 7.30am inspection at the  track on Sunday morning but there is some great racing in store if it gets the go ahead

The return of Marine Nationale to the track will be the highlight for Kildare trainer Barry Connell as he sends his stable star and plenty of others to the Leopardstown Christmas Festival next week.

“The racing industry has so much in common with mental health ... You’ve good days and you’ve bad days, whether it be jockeys, trainers, owners or guys working in the yard."

Jack Kennedy rode a brilliant treble today at Punchestown, including winning the feature race on Brigherdaysahead

"I think that this is probably one of the best weekends racing we have had here in many years" - Punchestown CEO Colin O'Neill

Voting has opened for the 2024 Horse Racing Ireland Ride of the Year Award and Monasterevin's Whelan needs your help

Day one of Premiere Weekend at Punchestown sees a cracking eight-race card including a sensational Grade 1 Morgiana Hurdle

Moone-based trainer Jessica Harrington was honoured with the Cartier/The Daily Telegraph Award of Merit at a gala event at the Dorchester Hotel

Naas Racecourse have announced the introduction of a brand-new Grade 2 Novice Chase to its prestigious Grade 1 Lawlor’s of Naas raceday on Sunday, 5th January 2025.

Marine Nationale had to settle for second place behind Quilixios at Naas Racecourse but trainer Barry Connell was happy with the performance

Marine Nationale is the star attraction as jumps racing returns to Naas on Sunday but after a nine month absence, can the Barry Connell trained Cheltenham be back somewhere near his best?

There will be much intrigue surrounding  Barry Connell's 2023 Cheltenham winner when he takes to the track at Naas on Sunday for a hotly contested Grade 3 race

Robbie Dolan flew home on the huge outsider Knight's Choice to win one of the biggest horse races in the world

Legendary Irish show jumper and member of the three back-to-back Aga Khan winning teams for Ireland Captain Con Power has died at the age of 71

King George winner Hewick is the star attraction at Punchestown today but he won't have it all his own way in a highly competitive feature race 

Punchestown hosts it's first jumps meeting of the new season on Tuesday

Ryan Moore heaped praise on Kyprios after a stunning performance at the Curragh today

Monasterevin jockey Ronan Whelan enjoyed his second win of the Irish Champions Festival today at the Curragh

Local trainer Johnny Murtagh won the Group 2 Moyglare Jewels Blandford Stakes for the second time as a trainer with Hanalia, having saddled Belle De Crecy to score in 2013 in his first season with a licence.

Irish Champions Weekend day at the Curragh has become one of the highlights of the racing calendar at the famous track and Aidan O'Brien is extremely strong handed for an assault on the day

The Carlow based trainer said he was 'very surprised and very disappointed' with the decision to suspend him for ten months

John 'Shark' Hanlon has been given a ten month suspension of his training licence and fined €2,000 by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board due in a incident involving the transportation of a dead horse last June

Nighteyes returns to Naas in bid to emulate her mother in the €100,000 Tally-Ho Stud Irish EBF Ballyogan Stakes on Family Fun Day

A preview of Saturday's action at the Curragh, including the thoughts of Sky Sports Racing presenter Callum Helliwell on the two Group 2 races 

There is another afternoon of high quality racing in store at the Curragh on Saturday, we preview the best of the action

The first of the FBD Hotel & Resorts Saturday Series at The Curragh took place last weekend and continues on Saturday

The Group 1 Keeneland Phoenix Stakes looks to be a straight shoot out between Babouche, trained by Ger Lyons, and Whistlejacket, trained by Aidan O'Brien, on a high class eight race card at the Curragh on Saturday

A seven race card at Naas on this Bank Holiday Monday gets underway at 2.20pm

Kildare connections enjoyed a very successful Thursday at the Galway Festival

Dermot Weld has earned the 'King of Ballybrit' nickname due to his many winners at the Galway Festival down through the years and he could add to that next week