LOCAL trainer Sean Allen was a popular winner of the Paddy Power Cork Grand National on Sunday where his Lonesome Boatman (8/1) provided another favoured local, jockey Darragh O’Keeffe, with a treble.

Thirteen runners contested the three-and-a-half-mile marathon with O’Keeffe boldly making the running on the nine-year-old gelding, who held on well to beat Big Debates by six lengths.