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@DLynchSport But surely it won’t be just a public sale?

@FinbarKeating I don’t know Fin. Look at the crowd that went to Cork v Limerick a few weeks ago?

Tickets are going to be extremely hard to come by for the League final double header. Cork and Limerick would sell out the Gaelic Grounds on their own. Why not have the 1B final as a standalone fixture on the Saturday evening; and the 1A then on the Sunday afternoon?

@mcmanusbookie @JustinFlood17 @LimerickRaces @irishracing @patcashhealy @JohnnyDineen @RacingPost Finbarr Keating x 2

Looking forward to this Sunday @LimerickRaces where we sponsor the Kevin McManus Champion Bumper. If you would like to go simply reply with a name and how many tickets you're after and we'll do our best @irishracing @patcashhealy @JohnnyDineen @RacingPost

@racingblogger @BectiveStud Yearlings Stephen.

The future stars here @BectiveStud enjoying some fine Irish weather today. Noel and Valerie Moran have done an incredible job at transforming this place! 😍 The new hotel being built looks incredible.

@DLynchSport He might win the European Cup.

That’s a shocking result for Liverpool. Will Slot see the end of the season?

@ICC_Coursing It was an excellent final! As good as anyone ever saw!

Ashmore Mac gets there in the very last stride to deny a gallant Stickmein which led everywhere bar the last few strides. 100% correct decision from Bernard Goold but what a final we had.

@AndyGoode10 🤣

@RacingPost @DavidJenningsRP I agree. They should stay on the flat with him. Plenty of races there.

.@DavidJenningsRP on Constitution Hill: "I hate myself for saying this, but my gut is telling me that Southwell has made a Champion Hurdle appearance less likely than more. That might sound daft, but he was so impressive that Plan B could become Plan A. "The Ormonde Stakes at Chester in May might be an ideal target if hurdling is shelved"

@LFCHistoryShow @_Paris_10 Get off the stage! I’ll never forget it!

@_Paris_10 Istanbul by a mile, if u were there, you’d know

Istanbul 2005 or Barcelona 2019?

@Life0fGrimes @RacingPost @JohnnyDineen Yep. Agree on that.

@RacingPost @JohnnyDineen He'll be on ITV Racing every day, with Brian Gleeson. The pitch will be absolutely packed.

He's BACK! 👀 @JohnnyDineen to return to Cheltenham betting ring as Paul Byrne-backed bookmaker shells out £325,000 for rails pitch 🔥 Read more with RacingPost+ 👇 racingpost.com/news/festivals…

@RichyShea @kevinblake2011 @JosephOBrien2 Unbelievable. Great thinking to go there.

@kevinblake2011 @JosephOBrien2 Great placing Mad that a stayers hcap is one of his biggest pots to date Those owners have had some luck

A huge training performance by @JosephOBrien2 to scoop one of the biggest prize money pots of his career. A fantastic ride by DBM too, again showing the wider world just how good he is. Great start to the year. 🙌

@RobLooseCannon It was tense that evening. There was a bunch of English fans in the corner of the North terrace and you could see coins spinning through the air. We left once we saw that. Got to a pub on Leeson St. and were locked in for the rest of the night.

Today in 1995 Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to 4,000 out of 40,000. Gardaí drilled for a few minor scenarios, however, their main presence was outside the stadium. Before the game, in a prelude to violence, nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the players. Kickoff was 6:15pm. The toxic, intimidating atmosphere grew by the second. There was the usual reprehensible behaviour of spitting and throwing missiles, which gradually ramped up. The tone of the verbal intimidation spoke volumes about the xenophobia and sectarianism endemic in the English hooligan's psyche. Chants of "F#ck the Pope" and "No surrender to the IRA" may seem childish taunts, but they were joined by provocative hate speech such as "Clegg is innocent", referring to British soldier Lee Clegg who murdered two Belfast teenagers, then was controversially cleared years later. 22 minutes in and David Kelly scored, 1 - Nil for Ireland. This was soon followed by a disallowed offside goal by England's David Platt, and then the thuggery stepped up a notch. Approximately 26 minutes in, and from the old West Stand, rubbish and torn up seating were infamously hurled down by the English hooligans on to the Irish fans in the lower stands. In an idiotic oversight, some Irish fans had been ticketed areas in the English zones, after the FA returned tickets to the FAI. This left them isolated and vulnerable, surrounded by their attackers. In fairness to the dismayed referee, he stopped the match at this point and pulled both teams off the pitch, littered with torn and thrown seats. No doubt the English team and their genuine fans were as disgusted by the behaviour of the "casual" gurriers as everyone else. As Jack Charlton left the pitch, vile verbal abuse from his fellow English countryman was hurled at him. "Judas" is the least obscene word. The Irish fans in the lower stands were essentially sitting ducks at the mercy of the English rioter's missiles. They eventually were forced to spill out on to the pitch to avoid worse injury. 12 more minutes and the match was called off. The PA system, and the presumably terrified match stewards, began to evacuate the crowd as the missiles and threats rained down. Mercifully the majority of the shocked fans and their families made their way safely and peacefully out of Lansdowne. But the not insignificant force of 4,500 English "fans" needed to be detained by Gardaí. The reason for this was twofold. Firstly for their own safety, to keep them segregated from the home supporters who they had cowardly assaulted (and who dramatically outnumbered them). Secondly to search and arrest the guilty parties, some of who British forces had identified as organised criminal and paramilitary elements. Predictably, this detention caused the violence and thuggery to escalate. The Garda response was hampered by access to the seating areas occupied by the rioters. One particularly nasty group of bigots essentially orchestrated the chaos, lead by an English fascist called Charlie Sargent, who notorious founded Combat 18 in 1992. For those blissfully unaware of these neo-nazi thugs, all you need to know is the "18" in their name is alphabet code for AH, Adolf Hitler. They were the muscle for the unabashedly racist right-wing British National Party (BNP). It will be surprising to no one that these English thugs had a close relationship with the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and many were members of the National Front-> concludes in comments

Cmon Reds! #Liverpool

@racingblogger That’s good value.

@ICC_Coursing Any frost there?

Great to be back at Powerstown Park for the 100th National Coursing Meeting. Going to be an exciting couple of days here in Clonmel.

@Nolan_Paul Thanks.

@FinbarKeating Shane Breen, Trevor Breen and David Simpson. All of them winners of the Hickstead Derby.

First show of 2026. On site for the 5* UAE President's Cup CSI5*, CSI2* and CSIYH1* international jumping show in Abu Dhabi. Best of luck to all those competing at the spectacular facility that is the #AbuDhabi Equestrian Club this week. #equestrian #horses #jumping 🐴🐴🐴

Why do parents only announce their baby’s weight when it’s born? You never hear them say…….. Happy 30th birthday Steve, 18 stone, aren’t you a big boy now.

@GayKelleway @Stephenh61 The show will go on.

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