Galway’s Dean Raftery and Monaghan’s Daniel McKenna and Stephen Wright have been shortlisted for the 2012 Billy Coleman Award with a top prize of €50,000.

WHAT appeared to be a cracking entry for Sunday’s Kilkenny-based Suirway Farm Machinery Raven’s Rock Rally, the fifth round of the Dunlop National Rally Championship, has been decimated by a series of withdrawals.

WITH little room for error, Tim McNulty (Subaru WRC) and co-driver, Paul Kiely were pushed all through the Hotel Kilmore Cavan Rally before claiming their fourth successive victory in the Dunlop National Rally Championship.

BATTLING cousins Patrick Hyland and Paul Griffin will touch gloves in anger for the first time when they battle it out for the vacant Irish featherweight title at the National Stadium on April 19 on a bill that will feature all three Hyland brothers with Edward set to contest the Irish super featherweight belt with Kevin O’Hara from Belfast.

Former European and British bantamweight champion Noel Wilders has been chosen to oppose Dubliner Bernard Dunne at the National Stadium on Saturday, January 28.

HAVING chalked up an 18th straight pro win in Germany last weekend, Bernard Dunne is hoping to make a step up in class by challenging England’s Michael Hunter for the European (EBU) super bantamweight title within the next six months.