The 100,000 Kwacha purse — around €17,000 — is far short of the megabucks Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will earn in Nevada this weekend. 

She’s fluent in a few styles, but this feisty kick boxer’s dream is to take part in the next Olympics, says David Young

THE spotlight may be on Willie “Big Bang” Casey’s clash with WBA champion Guillermo Rigondeaux tonight but another Irishman, Brian Magee, bids for the IBF world super-middleweight title in Montreal in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

A FUND-RAISING campaign for children affected by the extremely rare Battens Disease reached new heights over the weekend.

IN the fight for his family’s survival no mountain is too high to climb for the man who has organised the world’s highest boxing match on top of Carrantuohill in an effort to finance potentially life-saving treatment for his children.

World and back-to-back European Lightweight Champion Katie Taylor has been included on an eleven strong Irish senior squad for a three day international training camp which begins at the National Stadium in Dublin today.