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- ↑ "All Star Winning Teams". Irish Times. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
- ↑ "Huge Local GAA Weekend; Soccer, Rugby, Golf, Kildare Hopes In Tonight's Greyhound Derby". Kildare radio.com.
- ↑ "Joy for breeder of Cheltenham winner". Irish Independent. 26 March 2016.
- ↑ "2018 Irish Derby final". Irish Greyhound Board.
