CORK footballers are back in the limelight tomorrow night at a charity boxing show at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

ARMCHAIR sports fans are in for a treat next Saturday after RTÉ announced yesterday that Willie ‘Big Bang’ Casey’s attempt to take Guillermo Rigondeaux’s WBA world super bantamweight crown will be broadcast live.

WORLD Champion Katie Taylor is to top the bill at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on November 6 when a Garda Síochána selection host the NYPD.

WORLD and European champion Katie Taylor tops the bill at a major fight night scheduled for Cork’s Rochestown Park Hotel on November 11.

FOUR members of the Cork senior football panel will be in action when Rylane Boxing Club stage their first open tournament of the season at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom tonight.

ROY SHEAHAN (St Michael’s, Athy) will have the ideal opportunity to get his international career back on track when he guests for the Garda/Rylane selection against the New York Police Department in a sell-out dinner show at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on Saturday night.

CORK footballer Michael Shields goes on the offensive on Tuesday night when he makes his ring debut in Aghabullogue Hall at the Rylane BC tournament.

TWO members of the Cork senior football team will feature on the bill at the Rylane BC tournament at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom on December 7.

DAVID BARRETT will take his preparations for next month’s national senior boxing championships to a new level when he boxes former champion, David Joyce, on a 15-bout bill promoted by Rylane boxing club at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom tomorrow night.

A SMALL Cork school with a big ‘green’ reputation has won a competition run by renewable energy company Airtricity.

JUST a couple of weeks after a sell-out event at the same venue, Rylane Boxing Club will stage another boxing extravaganza at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom on Friday, February 23.

RYLANE boxing club will kick off a big week for Munster boxing with a 16-bout tournament at the Wallace Arms Hotel in Millstreet on Friday night while Ballybunion will host some of the world’s best boxers next week for Ireland’s second-ever multi-nations tournament.

IT COULD be a case of NYPD black and blue after a novel boxing tournament in Cork next month.

Brendan Mooney

NEWLY crowned national intermediate champion Dara O'Sullivan (Fr Horgan's) will be back in action at the Abbey Hotel in Ballyvourney tomorrow night when Rylane and Macroom boxing clubs combine to stage an exciting tournament.

CORK will host the biggest boxing tournament in those islands from November 4-8 and the event, which will draw nine nations to the Rochestown Park Hotel, could be the stepping stone to an Olympic qualifying tournament for the 2008 Games.