Belfast’s Carl Frampton looks ahead to the first defence of his IBF super-bantamweight world championship against Californian Chris Avalos at the Odyssey Arena tonight.

Barry McGuigan is hoping for the perfect birthday present from his protégé tomorrow night, with the Clones Cyclone calling on Carl Frampton to deliver a knockout in his first world-title defence.

Rally Ireland has welcomed a report today which shows that television viewing figures for the World Rally Championship (WRC) have shown an increase for the fifth year in a row to an annual total of 807 million viewers.