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

BILLY WALSH will find himself fighting for an Irish title after just a handful of professional bouts when he takes on the experienced James Gorman for the vacant light welterweight title at Neptune Stadium in Cork on January 26.

BRIAN BARRETT, a cousin of former Irish Olympian Francis Barrett, brought the curtain down on a marathon session of National Intermediate Championships quarter-finals with a thrilling win over Patrick O’Shea at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday night.

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.

BERNARD DUNNE takes his boxing career to a new level when he fights former champion, Esham Pickering, for the European Super Bantamweight title at The Point tonight.

BERNARD DUNNE faces the toughest challenge of his boxing career against Ukranian southpaw, Yuri Voronin, at the National Stadium on May 14.

BERNARD DUNNE’S amateur coach Peter Perry predicts an early end to the Dubliner’s sell-out homecoming fight at the National Stadium on Saturday (Live RTÉ Two).

BERNARD DUNNE is set to relaunch professional boxing in Ireland and will be joined by former Olympian Francis Barrett.

Galwayman Francis Barrett reckons he is in line for a European title shot having retained his light welterweight EU belt against Northampton's Alan Bosworth at the Wembley Conference Centre in London.

Francis Barrett made a significant breakthrough in European boxing circles in Nottingham, gaining a unanimous points decision over local favourite Gavin Down for the vacant European Union light welterweight title.