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Gary O’Sullivan targets Billy Joe Saunders as world title dream lives on

Gary O’Sullivan is hoping to secure a rematch with old friend and foe Billy Joe Saunders, the WBO middleweight champion, after a shock victory in Canada put him right back in the world title frame.

Andy Lee is declared the winner 18/3/2017

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Andy Lee wins by unanimous decision after 15 months out of the ring

Andy Lee returned to the ring with a whisper more so than a bang following a 15-month absence.

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What next for fallen champion Andy Lee?

Andy Lee’s display following his world-title loss to Billy Joe Saunders saw the deposed Limerick champion maintain the same battling heart he had shown in the ring a short while earlier.

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Adam Booth: Andy Lee development gives me goosebumps

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World’s hardest puncher next for Andy Lee

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Andy Lee’s world title defence is called off again

Venue change has handed advantage to Billy Joe Saunders, admits Andy Lee

Andy Lee admits the cancellation of his dream homecoming world title defence has boosted Billy Joe Saunders’ chance of victory, after the fight was rearranged to take place in Manchester.

Tue, 18 Aug, 2015

Andy Lee Interview: ‘I didn’t know what I was doing. I was concussed’

It wasn’t until that last fight in Brooklyn that Andy Lee realised just how true some words of that neighbourhood’s most famous and notorious son really were.

Sun, 02 Aug, 2015

Women’s sport in spotlight for wrong reasons

A week in the life of women and sport, eh?

Mon, 27 Jul, 2015

Andy Lee gets ready to rumble in Thomond Park

The red cauldron of Munster Rugby simmered politely yesterday as boxing big hitters Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders squared up to each other at Thomond Park for the announcement of their world title fight there on September 19.

Wed, 15 Jul, 2015

Andy Lee: It ain’t tiddlywinks, we’re going in there to take each other’s heads off

This ain’t McGregor-Mendes or McGregor-Aldo. At least outside the ring.

Wed, 15 Jul, 2015

Champ Andy Lee will be king of Thomond, says Adam Booth

Andy Lee’s manager and coach Adam Booth believes that it will be a triumphant homecoming for the Limerick southpaw at Thomond Park.

Mon, 22 Jun, 2015

Frank Warren eyes stadium show for Andy Lee fight

Promoter Frank Warren is ready to bring world championship boxing back to Ireland this summer should he arrange a deal to promote a showdown between WBO champion Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders. 

Wed, 04 Feb, 2015

Lee may make first title defence in Ireland

A date for the first defence of Andy Lee’s new WBO middleweight title could be arranged before Christmas and promoter Frank Warren has revealed that a homecoming show in Ireland is "a viable situation".

Thu, 18 Dec, 2014

Spike sharper with new training regime

Irish middleweight Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan believes a new approach to training and preparation has him stronger and sharper ahead of his grudge match with Dublin’s Anthony Fitzgerald.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2014

450 getting behind the wheel on Route 2014 for Cannonball

Irish drivers are well used to being stuck in the middle of traffic jams.

Sat, 13 Sep, 2014

Hosts singing in the rain

INCESSANT rain certainly dampened the spectacle of the Comórtas Peile Na Gealtachta in Falcarragh, Co Donegal but the miserable conditions failed to deter Cloughaneely and Moycullen, who will meet this afternoon in the senior final.

Mon, 06 Jun, 2011

I’m a world beater now, insists Khan

AMIR KHAN believes his shocking defeat by Breidis Prescott last September actually boosted his world title chances by turning him “from a boy into a man”.

Sat, 18 Jul, 2009

Edwards savours victory over England

As both sets of supporters left Twickenham barely able to comprehend how Wales had managed to beat England, divine intervention seemed as good a theory as any.

Sun, 03 Feb, 2008

Sisters die when they crash into each other

Two sisters were killed when their vehicles collided head-on on an Alabama road as they travelled to visit each other.

Wed, 20 Nov, 2002