A jury took four hours to deliver a not guilty verdict in the case against a man accused of falsely imprisoning his mother’s friend during a violent siege.

The man facing three charges related to a false imprisonment at a house where it was alleged that a gas cylinder was thrown down stairs at a garda, indicated yesterday that he would be pleading guilty to all counts against him.

A second man was arrested and brought before Cork District Court yesterday arising out of the investigation of a false imprisonment case where it was alleged that the door of a house was barricaded in Cork City in the early hours of Tuesday.

Pride. After the fall. Back in 2012, Annalise Murphy cut a very different figure to the one before us now.

It should have been the most exciting journey of Pat Ryan’s life but when Michael O’Reilly’s coach boards his flight to Rio to see his protege tomorrow, their reunion will be a subdued affair.

Former AIBA World No.1 ranked bantam John Joe Nevin continued his vendetta against southpaws in Virginia on Saturday night.

Travellers’ rights campaigners say they fear the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions not to press charges against writer Brenda Power for incitement to hatred gives the media free reign to publish racist comment.

LIFE is not a hymn sheet, which is why nobody has the right to expect that everyone should be on the same page as them.

Victor Raul Capacita is being lined up as the opponent for John Joe Nevin’s first fight since last November in New York next Tuesday.

After two intense European Elite tournaments this summer, the final count for Irish male boxing is three gold, one silver and two bronze medals and seven places secured for October’s World Elite Men’s Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Doha, Qatar.

Olympic silver medalist John Joe Nevin faces a trial by judge and jury after he was charged yesterday with the offence of violent disorder.

Boxers represent Ireland’s best hope of medals at the European Games which began in Baku last night.

Boxer John Joe Nevin challenged a garda in a melee outside a pub by asking: “Do you know who I am?”

Irish head coach Billy Walsh is planning to keep Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan busy in quality tournaments ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games.

Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has been barred from every pub in Co Westmeath pending a court case following a brawl outside a bar earlier this week.

Irish Olympic Boxer John Joe Nevin has appeared in court on public order charges.

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Katie Taylor has warned that the amateur boxing game is in danger of losing its identity and effectively becoming obsolete due to recent moves to minimise the differences between it and the professional fight game.

Routes to Olympic qualification continue to multiply but that isn’t to say that getting there is any easier, writes Brendan O’Brien.

While Matthew Macklin suffered a heart-breaking defeat on Saturday night, his middleweight compatriot Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan staked his claim to be Ireland’s premier 160lb fighter with a brutal one-round knockout of Dubliner Anthony Fitzgerald at the 3Arena.

Jorge Sebastian Heiland made a mockery of the bookies’ odds which ranked Matthew Macklin as a 1/20 favourite ahead of their WBC world middleweight title eliminator on Saturday night, but, in hindsight, Father Time was the most difficult opponent for the home fighter.

London 2012 silver medallist John Joe Nevin believes Floyd Mayweather wouldn’t have got off the floor from the punch that sealed his comeback win at the Ring of Dreams Gym in North Carolina on Saturday night.

John Joe Nevin will box on Saturday in his first fight since

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Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin will be between the ropes for his comeback fight in North Carolina this Saturday six months after it was feared his career was over.

Olympic gold medal winner Katie Taylor admits more should have been done to promote Irish boxing following the team’s heroics at the London Games in 2012.

John Joe Nevin and Berkeley Sports & Media of the UK have parted company.

John Joe Nevin believes positive thinking has fast-tracked his remarkable recovery and he’s now planning to improve to four wins from four by Christmas.

With his confidence boosted by a series of accolades from a glittering junior career, Michael Conlan arrived at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi four years ago convinced he was ready to claim senior gold.

Olympic champion John Joe Nevin has vowed that nothing will stop his quest to become a future world champion as he went back to the gym seven weeks after having both legs broken in a violent attack.

World silver medallist and 2013 European middleweight champion Jason Quigley has made his long awaited move into professional boxing.

Olympic boxing silver medallist John Joe Nevin was released from the Midlands Regional hospital in Mullingar yesterday following an assault at the weekend in which he suffered two broken legs.

John Joe Nevin's coach believes the boxer was simply "in the wrong place at the wrong time" when he was attacked on Saturday.

Olympic medal winner John Joe Nevin is expected to be out of action until September after an assault at the weekend.

Gardaí have this morning released a man, aged in his 20s, who was questioned in connection with an attack on Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin.

A man in his 20s is in Garda custody in Mullingar this evening following an attack on Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin.

It is understood Olympic medal winning boxer John Joe Nevin is being treated in hospital for injuries to his leg following an incident in Mullingar this morning.

John Joe Nevin felt more pressure making his professional debut on Monday night in Boston than going into the 2012 Olympic final in London.

There’s been little time to sit back and relax for newly appointed IABA CEO Fergal Carruth.

Billy Walsh hasn’t diluted his ambition of Ireland finishing top of the boxing medal table at the next Olympic Games despite the raft of changes which threaten to squeeze the number of qualifiers under his charge.

AIBA Professional Boxing (APB) chiefs fear losing out on five top Irish boxers — after they failed to sign up John Joe Nevin.

An Olympic boxer will avoid a conviction for public order offences after he gave a commitment to give four hours coaching to young people in his home town.