WILLIE CASEY is first in line for a shot at the European super bantamweight title which Spaniard, Kiko Martinez, reclaimed with a points victory over Arsen Martirosyan at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

ONE of the great questions about humanity is the one that wonders why we believe what we believe.

GARY “SPIKE” O’SULLIVAN travels to London next week for a Frank Warren press conference to announce details of his next fight, scheduled to take place in Glasgow the first week in September.

PAUL HYLAND turned in the best performance of his career when he stopped Eugene Heagney 2 minutes and 45 secs into the third round in his defence of his Irish super bantamweight title and emerged as a possible opponent for the former world champion, Bernard Dunne.

A British-born Roman Catholic bishop who was asked to leave Argentina after making “deeply offensive” comments about the Holocaust arrived back in Britain today.

The British government has criticised Channel 4’s decision to broadcast an Alternative Christmas Message by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

PHILIP SUTCLIFFE speaks highly of featherweight, Willie “Big Bang” Casey, and last night the Limerick southpaw justified the praise lavished on him by the former European bronze medallist with a second round victory over Calosa Caolho De Jesus from Brazil at the INEC in Killarney.

TWENTY seconds and one punch — that was all it took for Mike “The Rebel” Perez to demolish the 19 stone Brazilian, Claudemir Diaz, at Neptune Stadium on Saturday night.

A FRIEND spent the weekend in Prague and came across open-air stalls in the side streets where they sell old Soviet memorabilia.

CONTROVERSIAL historian David Irving, jailed for denying the Holocaust, will not take part in a debate tonight at University College Cork (UCC) due to security concerns.

The appearance of controversial historian David Irving at a university debate has been cancelled, it has emerged.

CONVICTED Holocaust-denier David Irving dodged a small but noisy protest outside RTÉ studios in Dublin ahead of his Late Late Show appearance last night.

IF ONE of the principle freedoms of our democracy — the right to free speech — can be jeopardised by allowing a discredited, nasty, crank like David Irving telling us that black is white then we need to reconsider the protection that we give to that privilege.

THERE has not been a punch thrown in anger but already Cork’s Billy Walsh has made a dramatic impression on the forthcoming professional boxing show at Cork City Hall, erasing talented Dubliner, Patrick Hyland, from the programme.

Organisers of a Polish book fair today asked British writer David Irving, who was jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, to leave the event.

WHAT Germany describes as its “particular historic responsibility” influences many of its policies as it continues to acknowledge its crime in exterminating six million Jews in World War II.

I WAS interested in Diarmaid Ferriter’s column arguing for a merger between the Labour Party and Fine Gael (Irish Examiner, December 28).

Controversial historian David Irving arrived back in the UK defiantly saying he would repeat the comments which led to his imprisonment in Austria.

BRITISH MP George Galloway was taking legal advice yesterday on whether to sue a man he alleges defamed him during a heated debate in Cork on Monday night.

Austria’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by right-wing British author David Irving and affirmed the verdict, the Austria Press Agency reported.

BERNARD DUNNE is ready to challenge Michael Hunter for the European super-bantamweight title and, after the Dubliner’s demolition of the promising American David Martinez at the National Stadium on Saturday night, all the indicators point to a showdown in Dublin next October or November.

Right-wing British historian David Irving, who was convicted by an Austrian court of denying the Holocaust, has been barred from speaking with the press, a court spokeswoman said today.

I AGREE with your columnist Rónán Mullen (Irish Examiner, February 21) on freedom of speech in general, and in particular with reference to self-styled historian David Irving.

NOW that historian David Irving has been jailed in Austria for denying the Holocaust, is there a suitable sentence here for the people who wish 1916 didn’t happen?

Austrian prosecutors in the trial of right-wing British historian David Irving filed an appeal today to contest his three-year prison sentence, saying it was too lenient.

RIGHT-WING British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria yesterday of denying the Holocaust — a crime in a country once run by the Nazis — and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Right-wing British historian David Irving was convicted in Austria on Monday of denying the Holocaust – a crime in this country once run by the Nazis – and was sentenced to three years in prison.

British historian David Irving has been convicted of denying the Holocaust and sentenced to three years in prison.

Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty to criminal charges of denying the Holocaust and conceded he erred in contending there were no Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz as his trial opened today in Vienna.

BERNARD DUNNE took a giant step towards an inevitable clash with the European super-bantamweight champion Michael Hunter after his short route victory over former British and European bantamweight champion Noel Wilders at the sell-out show in the National Stadium on Saturday night.

Austrian police have arrested controversial British historian David Irving on a warrant accusing him of denying the Holocaust, the Interior Ministry said today.

Brendan Mooney

A debate at the Oxford Union featuring the controversial historian David Irving scheduled for tomorrow night has been cancelled, it was confirmed today.