Former amateur world champion Michael Conlan will face Mexico City’s Ruben Garcia Hernandez tomorrow night as part of a bumper weekend of Irish boxing on Americas east coast.

FOR Junior Certificate students taking higher level business studies, it was a long day with papers in the morning and afternoon.

A 43-year-old civil servant was beaten and kicked because he refused to give cigarettes to two young Dublin men accused of his murder, it was claimed in the Central Criminal Court today.

Gardai brought two men to Cork District Court today on charges of importing cannabis resin with a street value of €125,000 into Ireland.