Light heavyweight prospect Tommy McCarthy is two bouts away from claiming an Irish title at the National Youth Championships just a few weeks after going all the way in the Ulster Senior Championships.

Darren Sutherland and Darren O'Neill will meet in a repeat of last January's Irish senior middleweight final tonight after Sutherland advanced from last night's semi final box-off at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Irelands quest for a medal at the European Junior Boxing Championships ended in disappointment yesterday following quarter-final defeats for John Joe Nevin and Mark McCullagh in Sombor Serbia.

Featherweight Carl Frampton created Irish boxing history tonight following a clinical victory over Latvian Denis Zabins in the quarter final of the European Union Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Flyweight Conor Ahern got Irelands European Union Championships campaign off to a flying start with a thrilling 20-19 victory over England's Stewart Langley at the National Stadium in Dublin today.

FORMER Taoiseach Charles J Haughey turned up at a meeting between developer John Byrne and senior officials of Dublin Co Council, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

A PUBLIC fixation linking the late Charles J Haughey to the former Baldoyle Racecourse wrecked a developer’s ambition to build houses there, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

Irish Broadband has recruited 40 additional staff members this year and is on target to generate at least 60 new jobs by year-end, the company says.

THOMAS LEE (Oughterard) and Eric Donovan (St Michael’s, Athy), members of the Irish team for the multi-nations tournament in Cork, will be in action at the national under-21 boxing championships finals at the National Stadium tonight, while a third member of the squad, Conor Ahern (Baldoyle), gets a walkover in the light flyweight division.

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor was the subject of a money laundering investigation by the Ulster Bank five years ago, the Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

FORMER TD Liam Lawlor received £335,000 from the proceeds of the sale of land at Baldoyle, Co Dublin, in 1998, even though he put up no finance for the property at any stage, the Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

THE jobs announced yesterday for a pharmaceutical plant in north county Dublin provide little comfort for the 250 workers made redundant in the area last week, the Irish National Organisation for the Unemployed (INOU) said.

The 2002 DHL Exporter of the Year Awards will take place in Dublin on Thursday at midday.