Belgium’s Wout van Aert after winning the UCI Cyclocross World Cup event at Sport Ireland Campus, Blanchardstown.

Staying ‘a head’ of the competition during the Dublin Horse Show 2019, at Royal Dublin Society, Ballsbridge

Competitors and staff pictured during the Tattersalls International Horse Trials

Imogen Cotter from Team NH finishes Ras na mBan Phase 2 despite crashing

"Grainne" the fox gets a better view of cyclists in the 2017 R‡s na mB‡n, as she sits on the shoulder of Pat Gibbons

CJ Stander tries to comfort Anthony Foley's son Tony after Munster's 1st game following his death

Competitors in the An Post Rás na mBan cycle along the Wild Atlantic Way

Lee Keegan distraught after Mayo is defeated in another All-Ireland Final

Martin Doran tries to avoid getting trampled after falling from his horse Warhead during the Punchestown festival

A horse and jockey make their way to the start at the Laytown Races

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser celebrates after winning the women’s 100m final in the Olympics.

Niamh Lamb and her husband Adrian, celebrate on their wedding day.

Performers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Chinese drummers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Ian Power on First Down Jets comes unstuck on ‘Ruby’s Bank’, at the Punchestown Races.

Early morning exercise for horse and jockeys, on the Curragh.

Shane Duffy, Monaghan goalkeeper, gets a boot in the face from Stephen McDonald, of Armagh.

Ian Power on First Down Jets comes unstuck on 'Rubys bank' at the Punchestown Festival in April 2007.

A lone spectator watches as riders in the annual round-Ireland Milk Rás flash past on the way to Cahersiveen, Co Kerry, in May 2004

The peloton in the annual round-Ireland Milk Rás stretches out on the way up to Moll's Gap, Co Kerry, in May 2001

The Republic of Ireland player Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy at arm's length after a game in Lansdowne Road in September 2001; their differences would come to a head in Saipan the following year