22/04 Punchestown Festival offers 70 Wicklow students hospitality work experience
-Punchestown Racecourse, catering giants Aramark and St Kevin’s Community College in Dunlavin have joined forces to launch a pioneering transition year programme that will see 70 students from the west Wicklow school take on paid work experience at the upcoming Punchestown Festival.
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22/02 Obituary: Michael O’Sullivan, champion jockey whose modest, friendly personality makes death at 24 an ‘unbearable loss’ to all who knew him
-There were many tributes to Michael O’Sullivan as the horse-racing community battled to come to terms with the death of the young jockey in the early hours of last Sunday, just five days shy of celebrating his 25th birthday.
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04/05 State Man rises to occasion on another record-breaking day for Willie Mullins
-Willie Mullins etched his place further into racing folklore as Grade One victories for State Man (2/7 favourite) and Ballyburn (1/5 favourite) saw the Closutton maestro become the winning-most trainer in Irish history.
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03/05 Willie Mullins becomes winning-most Irish trainer of all time with Grade One double taking him to 4,378 victories
-Paul Townend trails Jack Kennedy by four winners (123-119) going into Saturday’s final programme of the season
- The Irish Times
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03/05 Willie Mullins becomes most successful trainer in Irish racing history as Ballyburn romps home in Punchestown
-Ballyburn had to work harder than expected for victory in the Alanna Homes Champion Novice Hurdle at Punchestown but still helped Willie Mullins become the most successful trainer in Irish racing history.
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03/05 Punchestown: State Man aiming to complete spotless season and record 10th Grade One success
-Eager anticipation of highly-rated Cheltenham hero Ballyburn’s latest appearance in top-flight novice event
- The Irish Times
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02/05 Teahupoo takes Jack Kennedy a step closer to landing first jockeys’ championship
-Willie Mullins saddles record 35th Grade One success of the season as Il Etait Temps upsets 1-3 favourite Gaelic Warrior
- The Irish Times
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02/05 Teahupoo has shot at becoming first horse in 25 years to pull off Cheltenham-Punchestown Stayers double
-Gaelic Warrior an overwhelming favourite to give Willie Mullins a ninth win in a row in Grade One novice chase at Punchestown
- The Irish Times
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01/05 Galopin Des Champs can put seal on transformative campaign and pull off Gold Cup hat-trick at Punchestown
-Cheltenham bumper hero Jasmin De Vaux bids to join elite company by doubling up at Punchestown Festival
- The Irish Times
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30/04 JJ Slevin grabs more big-race glory as Banbridge pounces to deny Captain Guinness
-Mystical Power and Spillane’s Tower supply Grade One double for JP McManus and Mark Walsh in front of 16,361 Day One festival crowd
- The Irish Times
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30/04 Paul Townend has seven-winner gap to bridge on Jack Kennedy for champion jockey title
-Kennedy leads rival by 122-115 with just five days left to end of the season
- The Irish Times
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30/04 Fighting on all fronts leaves little sign Willie Mullins won’t continue to dominate Punchestown festival
-Dinoblue heads record-breaking trainer’s team into end of season finale worth €3.5m prizemoney
- The Irish Times
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28/02 Boodles signs three-year Punchestown sponsorship deal worth €900,000
-Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Rachael Blackmore is to be drafted into the jewellery retailer’s box to woo potential clients
- The Irish Times
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25/11 Punters can raise a glass to Flooring Porter at Punchestown
-With 14 of the 20 runners in the Troytown Chase last week, including eventual winner Coko Beach, Gordon Elliott gave a robust defence of his blanket approach afterwards as questions were raised about the dominance of his yard, and that of Willie Mullins, in Irish National Hunt racing.
- Independent.ie
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