On Friday 31st January Palmerstown House Estate hosted the inaugural Masquerade Ball in the outstanding Palmerstown Manor House with funds going to the Irish Injured Jockeys Fund. Attendees enjoyed five star dining, live band,followed by a breathtaking performance of opera by Matthew Gilsenan a member of The Celtic Tenors. Michael Higgins Manager of Irish Injured […]
Applications are now open for the fifth year of The Corinthian Challenge, a three leg charity race series to raise funds for Irish Injured Jockeys. The series offers participants a once in a lifetime opportunity like no other, the chance to experience what it is like to be a jockey riding at some of Ireland’s […]
The Irish Community Rapid Response (ICRR) led Air Ambulance, has been reduced to a five day only per week service, with immediate effect to ensure the service can continue for another six weeks. However, this cost saving measure is a temporary fix to ensure 6 weeks of continued service before the financial viability of the […]
Davy Russell and Johnny Murtagh were on hand this week to accept a donation of €7,699 on behalf of Irish Injured Jockeys from Tote Ireland and Off The Ball ahead of the busy Christmas racing period. The money was raised by the weekly charity bet on Off The Ball’s Friday Night Racing programme which has […]
A total of twelve riders went to post in the final leg of The Corinthian Challenge Charity Race Series for Irish Injured Jockeys (IIJ) at Leopardstown Racecourse on October 26th. The series was won by Paddy Woods riding his own racehorse Dalileo, trained by Johnny Murtagh. Paddy Woods from Julianstown, Co. Meath is no stranger […]
‘5 Champion Hurdle Winners’Binocular, Buveur D’air, Istabraq, Jezki and Espoir D’allen. JP McManus has recently kindly donated a number of these magnificent prints to Irish Injured Jockeys and full sale price of these prints will go to our Charity. The original is signed by owner JP McManus and all winning trainers (NJ Henderson, AP O’Brien, J […]
A field of thirteen riders went to post for the second leg of the popular charity race series, The Corinthian Challenge at Cork Racecourse Mallow yesterday. This is the fourth year of The Corinthian Challenge for Irish Injured Jockeys (IIJ) however, it’s the first time the series has included a race at the County Cork […]
Irish Injured Jockeys are delighted to announce an exciting line up of no less than fifteen participants for the 2019 Corinthian Challenge Charity Race Series. “We are looking forward to starting our fourth Corinthian Challenge Charity Race Series at The Curragh on Sunday. We are delighted again this year to have a super group of […]
On Friday, 28th of June at The Curragh Racecourse a selection of the under stARTers orders art collection went under the hammer to raise funds for charity. The unique public arts initiative was inspired by the new Curragh Racecourse. The complete collection consists of 21 life-sized horse sculptures, each painted by top artists. Each of these […]
‘under stARTers orders’ a charity fundraising public art project has launched their online auction platform at www.startersorders.ie. Visitors of the website can now simply bid on a selection of the magnificent horse sculptures created by some of Ireland’s best-loved artists to be in with the chance to be the lucky new owner of one of […]
