€80k purse for Kirby sweep

WHO wouldn’t want to win the Con and Annie Kirby Memorial Sweepstake at Limerick Track? The munificence of JP McManus means that, for the seventh year running, there will be a winner’s purse of €80,000.

The event, which is for greyhounds whelped in January 2017, or afterwards, starts on Saturday, March 24, and it would be nice to think that, come final night, a Kerry greyhound will be there with a chance of winning a purse that is the equivalent of winning both the Coursing Derby and the Coursing Oaks. Yes, some sponsor is that man, JP McManus!