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Bryan Cooper Due To Bring Gold Cup To Blennerville On Thursday

Bryan Cooper Due To Bring Gold Cup To Blennerville On Thursday

March 23, 2016 at 9:22 pm Comments are Disabled

IT should be some craic in Blennerville tomorrow evening, when a local hero comes home with a very special trophy. The whole of Tralee – along with the village west of the bridge – erupted last Friday when jockey Bryan Cooper rode Don Cossack to Gold Cup glory in the […]

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Winners of The Castle Bar Rollover, Danny Diggins and Tom Clifford (front) with Mandy McKenzie Vass, Paul Barry, Jamie Wrenn, Peter McKenzie Vass and Sean Fitzgerald. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Tom And Danny Win €6,000 In Castle Bar’s Cheltenham Rollover

March 19, 2016 at 11:27 am Comments are Disabled

AND so it ends. After 195 entries, 28 races, €19,500 in prize money, the winner of The Castle Bar rollover was announced on Friday evening…but what a dramatic way to win the cash! The ‘Speed And Degrees’ duo of Tom Clifford and Danny Diggins were languishing behind in the field with […]

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Sandra Leahy (centre) winner of the Best Dressed Lady competition at The Castle Bar on Wednesday receives her prize of a bouquet of flowers from Sheila O'Sulivan (second left). Also included is, from left; Aileen Riordan in third, Alex Buhl in fourth and Kim Kerins (second) . Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: The Kings And Queens Of The Castle Fashion

March 17, 2016 at 10:29 am Comments are Disabled

IN case you hadn’t noticed (which would be excusable if you haven’t opened a newspaper, or turned on a radio/TV/computer/phone/tablet/hearing aid since Monday)  there’s a popular racing event going on at the moment. This would explain the bustling crowds at The Castle Bar in Rock Street since Tuesday, as the interest in Cheltenham intensifies. […]

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Thousands In Prizes Up For Grabs In The Castle Bar’s Rollover

Thousands In Prizes Up For Grabs In The Castle Bar’s Rollover

March 14, 2016 at 4:40 pm Comments are Disabled

IT’S Cheltenham week and for The Castle Bar this means four days of entertainment, craic and thousands of euros to be won in their annual Rollover competition. Running since 1998, locals took to the Rollover competition straight away and it has now grown to the stage where there are around 170 entries for this year […]

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Denise Shanahan, Murt Murphy, Bryan Cooper, Maura O'Donnell and Tom Quane at the Cheltenham Preview Night in aid of St Brendan's NS Blennerville at Skelper Quane's on Thursday night. Photo by Dermot Crean

PHOTOS: Top Racing Jockeys Help Raise Funds For Blennerville School

March 11, 2016 at 4:04 pm Comments are Disabled

TRALEE’S Bryan Cooper and Philip Enright shared some of their tips for the Cheltenham festival last night at a ‘Preview’ fundraiser for Blennerville school. Racing fans present in Skelper Quane’s in the village, heard expert tips from the top jockeys and other well-known figures from the racing world such as photographer Pat […]

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