Upping the Ante : Mullins set to break his duck at Fairyhouse

Champion trainer Willie Mullins has never won the Irish Grand National. Is that about to change?

Pairofbrowneyes will run in the Irish grand National on Monday

During the first series of acclaimed Netflix hit The Crown, a young Queen Elizabeth II, fretting about a banquet at which US president Dwight Eisenhower is to be guest of honour, calls in Professor Hogg.

The “ever unconventional” educationalist briefs the queen on the essentials of what she needs to know: out of her depth on wider political developments, she is weary of channelling conversations to subjects she is comfortable discussing. Such as ...