Martin Rogan has spoken for the first time of the anger he felt after Irish rugby star Stephen Ferris suggested he took a dive in a bout last April.

In other championship action in the Odyssey, local favourite Martin Lindsay, game but outclassed, was well beaten on points by the extremely talented if also arrogant Welshman Lee Selby for the British & Commonwealth Featherweight title.

Carl Frampton hopes an impressive victory in the Odyssey Arena tonight will help secure a coveted world title shot.

Kiko Martinez made it to Belfast for fight week at the third time of asking, and at yesterday’s ‘Unfinished Business’ press conference vowed he won’t be leaving the city without his European title.

More than 2,000 children and young people are on waiting lists for appointments in Ireland's mental health system.

More than a quarter of all new child and adolescent referrals for mental health treatment in the past year have been due to self-harm or suicidal thoughts.

The key post of director of the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) has finally been filled after being vacant for over a year.

The key post of director at the National Office for Suicide Prevention remains unfilled as figures show male suicide has rocketed by almost 140% in the past 30 years.

The National Office for Suicide Prevention says the number of cases among young men in Ireland poses a particular challenge in their work.

The HSE has said it is confident it will have appointed someone to head up its National Office for Suicide Prevention by October following the sudden departure of its director, Stephanie O’Keeffe, last Friday, after just three months in the position.

Former Commonwealth heavyweight champion Martin Rogan has questioned the actions of Sandy Row Amateur Boxing Club after they compiled a 57-page report outlining verbal and physical assaults sustained by their members over the course of a decade.

Riot police were called to Belfast’s Odyssey Arena after a mass brawl erupted during the Irish heavyweight championship title fight on Saturday night.

Whether the vacant Irish title will be up for grabs when Martin Rogan and Tyson Fury clash at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast tonight appears to be contingent on whether Rogan signs up for a 12-rounder.

THE minister of state with responsibility for mental health has pledged to “pursue” the staffing crisis within the mental health services in order to ensure the safety of the services into the future.

LIFTING the recruitment embargo in the mental health services is futile unless the HSE is given a budget to employ frontline staff, it has been warned.

NEW heavyweight sensation Tyson Furey stopped Nicolai Firtha in the fifth round of their scheduled 12 rounder at the King’s Hall, Belfast on Saturday when Willie ‘Big Bang’ Casey shared the limelight with an eighth round stoppage against Daniel Kodjo Sassou to re-launch his career.

WBU chief Dan ‘Moose’ Lewis believes the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) should be investigated by Scotland Yard for denying Irish heavyweight Martin Rogan a shot at a world title.

MORE than €22 million was spent on agency staff and overtime within the mental health nursing services during 2010, documents obtained by the Irish Examiner have revealed.

THERE will be more than 300 long-stay patients still living in large psychiatric hospitals in 2030 if Government policy to close down the institutions does not speed up, it has been warned.

ALMOST 12,000 people attended hospital emergency departments last year seeking medical help for deliberate self-injury.

AN online survey has been set up by the HSE to provide updates on every recommendation which it is responsible for in A Vision for Change at a local and national level.

ANDY MURRAY says he is “ready” for a shot at the European lightweight title after defeating Latino WBO champion Clauninei Lacerda at the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the Breaffy House Resort, Castlebar on Saturday.

MENTAL health services will be “impossible to maintain” if the HSE’s own analysis of staffing levels is borne out and a further 1,000 nurses leave their jobs this year, documents have revealed.

LUIS “The Lion” Garcia said he will be ready for a world title fight next year after disposing of Byron Mitchell inside four minutes at the University Arena in Limerick on Saturday night.

IT is virtually impossible to separate Willie “Big Bang” Casey and Dubliner Paul Hyland, in Saturday night’s European super bantamweight title fight at the UL Arena in Limerick, according to former Commonwealth heavyweight champion, Martin Rogan.

WILLIE “Big Bang” Casey took his rivalry with newly-crowned European super bantamweight champion, Kiko Martinez, to a new level when they met face-to-face for the third time in the plush surroundings of the new Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin yesterday.

ALMOST 2,800 young people are on a waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services, HSE figures have shown.

IT is impossible to implement the Government’s plan to reform mental health services without more staff and further investment, the HSE’s mental health boss has admitted.

WITH two European titles, one Irish title and several reputations on the line, tonight’s mammoth nine-bout televised Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium is overflowing with promise.

David Haye will make the second defence of his WBA heavyweight title against domestic rival Audley Harrison in November.

GARY ‘SPIKE’ O’SULLIVAN can’t wait for his the Yanjing Beer Fight Night at The Neptune Stadium on Saturday week when he meets Abdelouahed Ben Lelly, a Moroccan-born fighter who boxes out of Italy.

UP to 1,000 staff have been lost across the mental health services around the country in the past 18 months, a leading psychiatrist has said.

MENTAL Health Minister John Moloney has questioned whether there is a media “conspiracy” behind the lack of coverage granted to a major campaign aimed at de-stigmatising mental illness.

PATIENTS staying in outdated facilities will be living in new, community-based settings in three years’ time after the Government promised to close down 15 Victorian-era institutions.

MINISTER John Moloney said there would not be “any point” being in his position next year if the Government does not provide adequate funding for implementing long-awaited recommendations on mental health.

GARY ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan will take his professional boxing career to a new level when he challenges Ciarán Healy from Belfast for the vacant Irish middleweight title at Neptune Stadium in Cork on November 28.

Olympic medallist Darren Sutherland was today remembered not only as a loved sporting hero but as a kind and generous family man deeply committed to his community.

DARREN Sutherland is hoping to get a few rounds under his belt tonight when he touches gloves with Siarhei Navarka from Belarus on the undercard to the Jamie Moore-Michele Piccirillo European light middleweight title fight at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan.

ANDY LEE is aiming to produce a knockout performance against Willie Gibbs at the UL Arena tonight which will put the Limerick man back into contention for a world title shot.

DELAYS in getting treatment are putting people with eating disorders are at an increased risk of dying.

An executive group is being established to help improve mental health services in Ireland.

CHILDREN with mental health problems will continue to face long delays for care because of the widespread shortage of specialist staff, the Health Service Executive admitted yesterday.

Standards of care for mental health patients are to improve within weeks, it was promised today.

PSYCHIATRIC nurses will not cooperate with the Mental Health Act when they come into effect in less than four weeks.