HEAVYWEIGHTS Eamonn Higgins (UCC) and Martin Donovan (OLOL) claim top billing on Friday night when Cork County Board host a charity boxing show in aid of the Alzheimer’s Association at Neptune Stadium (7pm).

KATIE TAYLOR will launch her 2008 season in Fermoy tonight when she meets Klara Svensson of Sweden on a bill that will include eight women’s contests at the Loreto Sports Complex (7.30pm).

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.

ARTHUR McDONAGH from Fermoy will have the perfect opportunity to put the disappointment of the recent national championships behind him when he travels to Germany tomorrow for back-to-back boxing tournaments in Berlin.

BOXING returns to the Neptune Stadium for the first time in 21 years on Saturday night (7pm) when the Cork County Board of the IABA stage a charity show in aid of the Leukaemia Ward at the Mercy Hospital.