THEY say every man thinks less of himself if he has never been a soldier.

THE Cork senior footballers return to action tonight but not on the playing field – the Leesiders are to participate in a charity boxing tournament in the Rochestown Park Hotel.

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

RORY O’DONOGHUE (Watergrasshill BC) has been handed the opportunity of a lifetime ahead of tomorrow night’s visit of the NYPD boxing team to the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet with the news he has been chosen to replace national champion Adam Nolan (Bray) in the featured welterweight contest with Beijing Olympian John Joe Joyce (St. Michael’s, Athy).

BIG-TIME boxing returns to the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet on December 10 when Rylane Boxing Club combine with the Garda Boxing Club to stage a show that will be built around the annual visit of the NYPD to box a Garda selection.

MEMBERS of a thriving camogie club are celebrating after a generous local businessman presented them with their very own “field of dreams”.

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.

AS modes of recovery go, theirs was plucked straight from leftfield.

CORK senior football captain Graham Canty last night described the squad’s recent boxing training as ‘a great experience’, as around 600 people gathered in the Rochestown Park Hotel to watch 20 members of the Cork panel fight in aid of the Cobh-based suicide awareness charity ‘Breaking The Silence’.

CORK footballers, who have been training with Rylane Boxing Club for the past six weeks, will show off their new skills when they touch gloves in a celebrity charity boxing tournament at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, on December 27.

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.

CORK boxing legend Seanie Barrett returns to action tomorrow night at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom (8pm).

BRIAN PETERS would love to stage a world title fight involving Andy Lee and John Duddy in Ireland.

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.

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.

MARVIN LEE, who will top the bill at the Garda v NYPD dinner-show in Cork on St. Patrick’s night, will not know the identity of his opponent until after the Golden Gloves tournament New York.

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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.

KATIE TAYLOR, Ireland’s latest boxing sensation, will top the bill at a show in the Edel Quinn Hall in Kanturk on November 30, it was confirmed yesterday

Four men were arrested and charged today with assault causing serious harm to a Cork Institute of Technology student who has been on a life support machine since February last year.