Mourners at the funeral of Barney McKenna, the last of the original Dubliners, have heard how his memory will be treasured.

NEW heavyweight sensation Tyson Furey stopped Nicolai Firtha in the fifth round of their scheduled 12 rounder at the King’s Hall, Belfast on Saturday when Willie ‘Big Bang’ Casey shared the limelight with an eighth round stoppage against Daniel Kodjo Sassou to re-launch his career.

THE late singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty has been described as “oozing with groove” by his close friend, Finbar Furey.

Three close friends killed in a road accident after enjoying the first day at the Listowel racing festival have been named.

Importers bringing live cattle and sheep into the North were urged today to stop after a new strain of the Bluetongue virus spread from the European mainland to England.

AN Irish ballad group taking the US by storm will launch its music collection here this week.

TYSON FUREY is again at the centre of a storm which was brewing on the eve of tonight’s box-offs for the final Olympic qualifier.

MICHAEL FUREY (Letters, February 25) seems to assume that anyone who disagrees with atheism does not “think with their heads”.

IT’S gratifying to learn that my letter (‘Hanafin should invest in faith schools only’, January 15) amused Michael Furey (Letters, January 24). Alas, the feeling isn’t mutual. I haven’t the slightest interest in providing evidence for the existence of a supernatural deity — to use Mr Furey’s quaint expression.

TYSON FUREY weighed in for the national senior boxing championships at the National Stadium yesterday morning but he will have to produce evidence that he has been resident in the country for 12 months before he can take his place in the semi-finals tonight.

TYSON FUREY will discover this morning if he can contest the Irish National Boxing Championship at the National Stadium.

A PUBLICAN slapped with an injunction stopping customers lighting up outside his premises says he hopes he loses his court case this week to prove the smoking ban is unworkable.

The youngest member of Irish folk music favourites the Furey Brothers, Paul Furey, has died.