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Gardaí at Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 15-year-old Ann Walsh, better known as ‘Nan’.

Ireland’s number one horse feed manufacturer, Connolly’s Red Mills, has announced that it is to sponsor the Thyestes Chase, one of Ireland’s premier National Huntraces. The Connolly’s Red Mills Thyestes Chase will take place in Gowran Park on Thursday, January 20, where Ireland’s top racehorses will compete for a €90,000 prize fund.

Horse Racing Ireland held the last of a run of six successful schools education days at Gowran Park Racecourse on Tuesday last. This initiative brought the education days to the following race courses: Dundalk, Navan, Limerick, Naas, Cork, and Gowran.

Boys and girls gathered in great numbers for the even-ages Juvenile B cross-country championships at a sun-drenched Kilmacow course on Sunday. The hard-working members of host club, St Senan’s, marshalled a well laid out course and with Ed Williams on the whistle there was no letup from start to finish. Kilkenny City Harriers (KCH), winners of the A Championships last month were again out in force and were very much to the fore, particularly in the girls’ races. The Castlecomer club were strong in the boys’ races.

A busy weekend of camogie saw county finals played last Saturday afternoon as the St Canice’s Credit Union Senior, Intermediate, Junior A, and Junior B finals were decided.

Officials at Kilkenny County Council are hopeful that Gowran Castle in County Kilkenny will undergo repair works in order to secure the premises and make it safe.

The final road championship races of the season, hosted by the Gowran club, were bathed in brilliant summer weather over a Gowran-Dunbell circuit on Sunday. Liam Kealy drove the lead car and the Kennedy girls manned the water station.

Today (Friday) Community Social Programmes (CSP) employing local people to develop community and social enterprises in the city and county, are holding open days to inform the public of their valuable work.

National 100m sprint champion, Jonathan Holmes, ended his track season on a high with a personal best performance in Heat 3 of The Diamond League in Brussels on Friday night.

Tragedy struck a Gowran family this week when 17-year-old Shane Breen was killed in a horrendous road accident on the N9 near Paulstown in Co Kilkenny in the early hours of Sunday.