Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to a hit-and-run crash in Dublin which left a cyclist with serious leg injuries.

International badminton player Nigel Boyne has been ordered to pay the manager of Baldoyle Badminton Centre €30,000 damages for assault and defamation.

I was always a bit of a smart-arse.

Since he was dazzling defenders before his teens with St Kevin’s Boys, Robbie Brady was being primed for stages like last night and his contribution may leave a legacy beyond his time in an Irish jersey, writes John Fallon.

The latest radio listenership figures prove that RTÉ need not pander to their top hosts’ wage demands.

Four dreamlike weeks have slipped through London’s fingers since Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford delivered three gold medals on a never-to-be-forgotten night at the Olympic Stadium that was, inevitably, dubbed Super Saturday.

A young man who rammed a pursuing garda patrol car in a stolen jeep after colliding with a van while driving through Baldoyle at high speed has received a six year sentence with three years suspended.

ERIC DONOVAN (St. Michael’s, Athy) produced one of the best ever performances to outpoint his clubmate, David Oliver Joyce, 17-10 and retain his lightweight title when the National senior boxing championships concluded at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

KENNETH EGAN predicted last night that he will become the first Irishman since legendary thrower, Dr to win two Olympic medals.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE set up what promises to be an enthralling quarter-final with the Olympic champion, Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine), with a resounding 12-3 victory over Englishman Joe Murray at the European Senior Boxing Championships in Liverpool yesterday.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St Michael’s, Athy) stamped his name on the list for next month’s European championships with an emphatic 20-4 victory over the plucky Ballymena light welterweight, Stephen Donnelly (All Saints), in the finals of the open tournament held to help select the team for Liverpool.

Ireland's Conor Ahern has booked a place in the quarter-finals of the Olympic qualification tournament in Athens tomorrow.

Irish flyweight Conor Ahern and middleweight Darren Sutherland both won their preliminary round bouts at the final AIBA Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece today.

DARREN SUTHERLAND (St Saviours OBA) strengthened his Olympic qualification hopes with a 15-8 victory over arch-rival, Darren O’Neill (Paulstown) in an action-packed middleweight final at the National Stadium on Saturday.

DARREN O’NEILL may have put what seemed like the perfect finishing touch to his preparations for this weekend’s box-off against Darren Sutherland when he won another gold medal at the multi-nations tournament in Zagreb but he admitted yesterday his preparations for the big rematch have not been perfect.

The Irish squad will train with their Italian hosts, France, Greece and Lithuania today at their Santa Maria training base in Perugia, Italy.

Irish head coach Billy Walsh believes that this weeks sparring and training camp with England and France at the National Stadium in Dublin can only augur well for the Olympic qualifiers in Pescara, Italy later this month.

THE massive haul of cannabis seized by gardaí yesterday almost equals the total quantity of the drug recovered last year.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Darren O’Neill took different routes but each had decisive semi-final victories to qualify for tonight’s middleweight showdown at the finals of the national championships at the National Stadium.

A woman who was 15-years-old when caught with 1,000 "ecstasy" tablets she was holding for her boyfriend has received a one year suspended sentence from Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

KENNETH EGAN and Roy Sheahan take their first steps towards qualification for the 2008 Olympics at the world boxing championships in Chicago today.

Middleweight Darren Sutherland will take no further part in sparring sessions at the Irish squad's training camp in France after sustaining a facial injury last night.

ERIC DONOVAN was handed the featherweight berth on the Irish team for the European Union Boxing Championships when his clubmate, John Joe Joyce, moved up to welterweight, and now he wants to create the sensation of the tournament when he meets the three-time champion, Domenico Valentino of Italy, in his quarter-final bout at the National Stadium tomorrow.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St. Michael’s, Athy) faces a showdown with reigning light welterweight champion Aodh Carlyle at the National Stadium tomorrow with a place on the Irish team for the EU boxing championships the prize.

Reigning World and European lightweight champion Katie Taylor racked up her second win in the space of 24 hours following an emphatic victory over Kurluk Valeviya in the quarter finals of the Ahmet Comet Cup in Turkey last night.

THE powerful Russians will visit Ireland a the end of the month to box two internationals, one at the National Stadium on April 27 and the other at Athlone IT on April 29.

Ireland will take on Russia in two internationals at the end of this month the Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed.

Nine Irish boxers are included on the Men's and Women's World and European rankings just released for March 2007 on the ABA Amateur Boxing website.

HIGH Performance Director, Gary Keegan, will be awaiting the results of a meeting in Thailand this week when boxing’s world governing body, AIBA, could decide a new venue for the World Championships, which take place later this year.

THE Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) have named an eight man squad of national senior champions for the Geebee Multi Nations in Finland next month.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association today named a six-man squad for the Felkis Stamm Senior Multi Nations tournament which will take place in Poland later this month.

EFFORTS to develop the former Baldoyle Racecourse in north county Dublin during the early 1990s proved to be a non-runner, the Mahon Planning Tribunal heard yesterday.

DARREN SUTHERLAND (St. Saviours OBA) added the national senior title to his CV with a power-packed performance that overwhelmed Edward Healy (Portlaoise) in the third round of their middleweight final at the finals of the National senior championships last night.

KENNETH EGAN (Neilstown) will face a Hungarian opponent tomorrow afternoon in his quest for a medal at the European Union Boxing Championships in Arborea, Sardinia.

Ireland’s boxers are set to contribute hugely to the Four Nations teams to box the touring Cubans in Liverpool on Friday and the following week at Dublin’s National Stadium.

ANDY LEE will be the star attraction again when he defends his middleweight title at the finals of the national championships in the National Stadium tonight.

ANDY LEE made a triumphant return to the National Stadium when he launched another defence of the national senior middleweight title he won two years ago with a very impressive 19-8 victory over Hugh Joyce (St. Michael's, Athy).

PAUL McCLOSKEY got his Olympic boxing qualification campaign off to the perfect start when he beat Halas Martin of the Czech Republic 37-13 in Warsaw last night.

WITH Limerick southpaw Andy Lee safely through to the Olympics, the remainder of Ireland’s Athens boxing hopefuls are currently training in Heidelberg in advance of next week’s qualifying tournaments in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Warsaw.

Three of Ireland’s finest young boxers emerged with gold in the early hours of this morning in Cork, with Baldoyle’s Conor Ahern, Andrew Murray of Cavan and Neilstown’s Kenneth Egan winning their final bouts of the week.

YOUNG Conor Ahern got Ireland off to a flying start at the Multi-Nations Boxing Tournament in Cork last night when he out-pointed Sofiane Takoucht of France by just one point, 29-28, to win the light flyweight title and reverse a decisive decision which went to Takoucht at the inaugural EU championships in Toulon last month.

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.