DENIS Lynch moved up to second position in the Rolex FEI World Cup rankings this evening (Friday) after a fifth place finish in the World Cup competition at Mechelen, Belgium with Thomas Straumann's 11 year-old bay gelding Abbervail van Het Dingeshof.

DENIS Lynch and Jessica Kurten picked up over 11,000 euro between them when finishing first and second in this evening's (Thursday) Two Phase competition at the five-star World Cup in Mechelen, Belgium.

THREE Irish riders will line out at the last World Cup show of 2011 in Mechelen, Belgium, which begins on Monday December 26.

DERMOTT Lennon from County Down tonight (Monday) won the Olympia Grand Prix in London with Judith Sossick's Irish-bred mare Loughview Lou Lou. Lennon, a former world champion, beat 32 of the world's best riders to take the 24,000 euro first prize.

IRELAND'S Dermott Lennon claimed third place in a thrilling jump-off in the Rolex World Cup Qualifier competition at Olympia, England this evening (Sunday), recording just one of three double clear rounds from a starting field of 34.

IRISH riders took two top ten places at European shows today (Saturday), with Denis Lynch finishing eighth in the Grand Prix at La Coruna in Spain, and Cian O'Connor claiming an identical position in the big jump-off class at London's Olympia later in the evening.

DERMOTT Lennon took the first honours for Ireland in the World Cup show at Olympia in London this evening with a comfortable win in the day's feature jump-off class.

THE penultimate World Cup competition of 2011 will see three Irish riders lining out at the Christmas show in Olympia, London at the weekend. Cork's Billy Twomey, joins Co. Down's Dermott Lennon and Meath's Cian O'Connor for the four-day event.

BILLY Twomey took the International Rider of the Year Award at the 2011 Show Jumpers' Ball in Killashee House Hotel, Naas, tonight (Saturday) after a glittering year that saw him win numerous international Grands Prix, culminating in victory at the Rolex Top Ten competition in Paris earlier this month.

IN one of the more unusual World Cup competitions in the present series, Ireland's Denis Lynch claimed ninth place at the Rolex Grand Prix in Geneva, Switzerland this afternoon (Sunday), piloting Thomas Straumann's gelding Lantinus.