BILLY WALSH won his first national boxing title in City Hall back in 1985 when the championships were staged in Cork as part of the “Cork 800” celebrations where Sugar Ray Leonard was among the celebrities watching him perform.

BILLY WALSH will fulfil a lifetime ambition when he tops the bill in Cork City Hall on February 17.

Dubliner Bernard Dunne made a victorious return to his native city last night, as he claimed a fifth round decision over Jim Betts of England at the National Stadium.

Racism is “subtle and selfish” in Irish society and lack of services in deprived areas is often a major cause, it was claimed today.

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