Limerick’s Myles Casey advanced to within one win of becoming the first St Francis BC boxer since Jimmy Moore and current WBO World middleweight champion Andy Lee to claim an Elite title last night.

A Westmeath "rampant addict" who collected a van loaded with heroin valued at €1.6 m because of his €25,000 "drugs debt" has had been jailed for seven years by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Westmeath “rampant addict” who picked up a van loaded with heroin valued €1.6m because of his €25,000 “drugs debt” has had his sentence adjourned so that he can be psychologically assessed.