Kenny Egan is going to have to produce an almighty effort if he is to wrest the light heavyweight title from Joe Ward in the finals of the Elite senior boxing championships at the National Stadium tonight.

TO anyone of a rational disposition, the sight of old or middle-aged men in bowler hats and orange sashes marching to commemorate a battle fought over 300 years ago seems absurd.

YOUR columnist Rónán Mullen’s criticism of Amnesty International (Irish Examiner, June 22) revealed an absurd political misconception that should come as no surprise by now to anyone with a clear insight as to what is happening in Iraq.