Cian o'connor News

German dressage team member Isabell Werth poses with her team dressage gold medal and individual dressage silver medal following the equestrian individual dressage competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Aug.

Though Ireland's Cameron Hanley jumped a double clear round with just a single time fault in the final competition of the European Individual Show Jumping Championships in Windsor, England on Sunday, he missed winning a medal by just .65 of a point.

A tension-filled two rounds the Irish team finished in seventh place of 17 teams at the European Show Jumping Championships in Windsor on Friday afternoon.

On day one of the Failte Ireland Dublin Horse Show, the first international class has been won by Ireland's Captain Shane Carey on the Minister for Defence's River Foyle.

Eventers make up the majority of Irish riders competing abroad this weekend, with George Russell joining Olympic riders Austin O' Connor, Sacha Pemble and Captain Geoff Curran in four-star action at Luhmuhlen, Germany, while Bramham Park in England sees a total of seven Irish competitors in both of the three-star events.

Cork's Billy Twomey was the best of the Irish in the Spanish Grand Prix at Madrid on Saturday, with a seventh place on Anna Kennedy's bay stallion 'KEC Maximum Joe'. The 32-year-old Cheshire-based Twomey was one of ten through to the jump-off from a starting field of 46, but dropped a pole in the final round to finish just behind the leaders.

MOTORSPORT: Adam Carroll drove superbly to put Ireland on pole for today's season-ending A1GP races at Brands Hatch .