The Aidan O'Brien-trained juvenile Rostropovich bounced back from a disappointing debut to claim the opening seven-furlong maiden at Gowran Park yesterday.
Having taken gold in the elite men's time trial last Thursday, Ryan Mullen completed the second National Championship double of his career when he soloed to victory in the men's elite Road Race Championships in Wexford yesterday.
Joe Ward has already been installed as a favourite to win a gold medal at the World Championships in Germany, but whether he wears the Irish light-heavy vest in Hamburg in August remains to be seen.
Lewis Hamilton branded Sebastian Vettel a "disgrace" after the German was deemed to have deliberately crashed into his title rival during a chaotic Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
There is one slight problem with the gift of talent - and Mark English knows it well. In a realm like Irish athletics, typically starved of major success, ability like his can become a public commodity - a rare asset which is corralled and critiqued at every turn.
Pentathlon Defending champions Natalya Coyle and Arthur Lanigan-O'Keeffe cruised to mixed relay gold at the modern pentathlon World Cup final in Lithuania yesterday.
It wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it wasn't really anything in a general sense - that's the best way to sum up the Irish performance at the European Team Championships in Vaasa, Finland.
UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor dropped by Crumlin's Children Hospital on Saturday to visit patients and their families, as he took some time out of his training schedule before his professional boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in August.
The 104th Tour de France starts in Dusseldorf on Saturday and to mark the occasion, HBO have been flagging trailers for a new movie, Tour de Pharmacy which airs a week later when the race reaches the mountains. No, I kid you not: T-O-U-R D-E P-H-A-R-M-A-C-Y.
There's a statue at the top of Dublin's O'Connell Street of Charles Stewart Parnell, son of a first-class cricketer and himself a keen player. Inscribed with a speech he gave in Cork in 1885, it reads "No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation . . . No man has the right to say to his country, 'thus far shalt thou go and no further'."
Irish amateur boxing may have been down after the Rio Olympics but it wasn't out. The team performance at the European Championships is the equivalent of a fighter getting off the canvas, shaking the cobwebs out of his head and returning to the fray with renewed vigour.
History was made on Saturday evening as Bellator MMA headed to Madison Square Garden for the first time for Bellator 180 and their Bellator NYC pay-per-view event.
UFC president Dana White has warned fans not to buy Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor tickets from “dirtball” touts, with ticket exchange websites already charging prices up to £5,000.
History was made on Saturday evening as Bellator MMA headed to Madison Square Garden for the first time for Bellator 180 and their Bellator NYC pay-per-view event.
