Barry McGuigan believes Saturday’s world-title unification clash is the most important fight of Carl Frampton’s career as the Belfast native prepares to finally meet long-time rival Scott Quigg. 

Kildangan 1-18 Templederry Kenyons 0-18: Heartbreak for Templederry Kenyons, their maiden North Tipperary senior final appearance ending in defeat.

Boxer Anthony Crolla will have to wait for his world title shot, having been taken to hospital after being hit with a concrete block while confronting burglars.

Ruairí Gleeson was the hero for Kildangan as the North champions swept past Clonoulty-Rossmore in the replay of the Tipperary SHC quarter-final at Dolla on Saturday, winning by 3-13 to 2-13.

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Tipperary senior football champions Thomas MacDonaghs came from behind in both ordinary and extra-time to force a draw in a thrilling championship quarter-final with Éire Óg/Anacarty at The Ragg on Saturday.

Tipperary senior champions Drom & Inch remain on course to retain the Dan Breen Cup following an impressive 2-22 to 0-13 quarter-final win over west champions Clonoulty Rossmore at Semple Stadium.

Tipperary 3-13 Kilkenny 1-17

The clash of the champions in the Mid Tipperary senior hurling championship semi-final ended in stalemate at Templetuohy yesterday as county champions Drom-Inch, courtesy of a pointed free by Johnny Ryan with the last puck of extra-time, forced a 2-21 each draw with Loughmore-Castleiney, the divisional champions, in a thrilling contest.

The curtain-raiser at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, the Munster IHC semi-final, went Tipperary’s way after beating Cork.

UCC, the hosts and favourites, booked their place in today’s Fitzgibbon Cup final and in the process set up the first all-Cork college decider in the history of the event.

University of Limerick, boasting a number of senior county stars, proved too strong for IT Carlow in the second half of this Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final.

IT WAS the persistence of two men carrying a Gaelic football torch in the hurling heartland of north Tipperary that finally twisted Chris Conway’s arm.

COUNTY star Seamus Callanan capped a sensational display with the winning score from a 90m injury time free to give Drom-Inch a 2-16 to 1-18 over Burgess in Saturday’s Tipperary SHC fourth round tie at Templemore.

RED hot favourites Toomevara overcame a determined Kildangan challenge to capture their 33rd North Tipperary senior hurling championship in Nenagh yesterday.

CORK U21 hurlers have named five senior panellists for tomorrow night’s Munster hurling championship semi-final with Tipperary in Thurles.

MARTIN DONNELLY, Irish sponsor of Matthew Macklin, planned to have hundreds of green T-shirts printed today with “Matthew Macklin — WORLD CHAMPION” on the back.

MATTHEW MACKLIN has just one thought in his mind — to win the WBA middleweight title tonight in Cologne and become the only current Irish holder of a world title.

TIPPERARY U21 boss Ken Hogan feels greater consideration should be given to the scheduling of the Munster hurling championships, as his charges prepare to face Waterford in tonight’s provincial quarter-final — just three days after the county senior side defeated Cork.

Birmingham-born Irish boxer Matthew Macklin will team up with revered American trainer Freddie Roach as he steps up his bid to win a world title, it has been announced.

An Offaly man “solicited” another man to kill a man he “blamed” for the drowning of his son, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

TIPPERARY were denied a possible third All-Ireland minor hurling title in a row by a ruthless Kilkenny side who produced one of the most impressive displays seen for quite some time in Croke Park in the first of the All-Ireland MHC semi-finals.

COLÁISTE MHUIRE Johnstown face Borrisokane VS in the All-Ireland Vocational Schools SHC A final at Nowlan Park this afternoon (3.30) bidding to atone for last year’s defeat in the decider by Loughrea.

There is one change in Tipperary's Minor Hurling team to play Cork on Sunday as well as some positional changes from the team which defeated Kilkenny in the semi-final.

THE appearance of Charles Haughey on yesterday’s Leaving Certificate ordinary level history paper may have been welcomed by many students who paid attention to the news the previous day.

Ireland has the worst poverty rate in the EU, an anti poverty group claimed today.

THE EU Directive on the Internal Market in Services could be one of the most important EU decisions for some time.

THE final examination of the present Leaving Certificate history syllabus took place yesterday afternoon.

Sky Sports' saturated Premiership coverage goes thermo-nuclear tomorrow at Old Trafford. And central to it all will be football's favourite pundit, Andy Gray. He spoke to Liam Mackey.