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Willie Mullins was crowned leading trainer at the 2024 Cheltenham festival. It was his eleventh time to take the award. Willie has trained 103 winners at the festival to date, and looks very likely to bring his total to well over 110 winners next week. On the cusp of a dozen leading trainer at the festival titles, the Mullins domination shows no sign of abating, and it will be the shock of the season if he is not crowned leading trainer at next week’s festival. I expect he will have eight or nine winners. Dan Skelton had a very successful 2024 festival with four winners, and while I do not expect he will match that figure, he should have a couple of winners as he closes in on his first UK trainer’s title. The Nicky Henderson stable was under a cloud at the 2024 festival, but everything seems to be on track for a successful festival this year, and he could pip Gordon Elliott to the runner up spot in the leading trainer competition.

Under the shade of the famous Hill of Crockafatha where racing has taken place in Bellewstown since 1726, An Spidéal native, Ciarán De Barra is ready to welcome Irish breeders to see his new first season stallion, Marie’s Diamond at Diamond Stud Bellewstown, as part of the Irish Stallion Trail on January 12 and 13.

The colourful look back on the year of sport in Galway by Ralph O'Gorman has become an iconic part of the New Year's reflection on the event on and off the field and tracks over the past twelve months. Enjoy.

With a survey revealing that 22% of people have experienced discrimination at work due to a mental health difficulty, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services has launched a new suite of resources as part of its #NoStigma campaign to explore how to support people with mental health difficulties in the workplace and to highlight the rights of employees who are experiencing mental ill health and the role of their employers.

As school children emerge from what has been an incredibly challenging and uncertain time, and with research last year showing that almost 20 percent of parents of primary school aged children have sought some form of mental health support for their child over the past two years, the National Parents Council Primary and St Patrick’s Mental Health Services are issuing a timely call for the development and introduction of additional primary schools-based mental health supports.

A recent survey has shown that almost 20 per cent of parents of mostly primary school age have sought some form of mental health support for their child during the Covd-19 pandemic.

In excess of 11,000 secondary students and teachers from all over the country are expected to attend this year’s Virtual HealthFest event on Wednesday, January 27, from 2pm to 4pm.

We are only days away from the release of the Leaving Certificate results.