Andy Lee’s manager and coach Adam Booth believes that it will be a triumphant homecoming for the Limerick southpaw at Thomond Park.

Talks about Andy Lee’s summer world title defence will begin this week after the World Boxing Organisation today sent out letters instructing all parties to get the ball rolling on his mandatory challenge from Billy Joe Saunders.

Andy Lee’s big showdown with Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillin is now a non-title fight after the American failed to make the weight limit.

Winning a world championship was a dream for Andy Lee, all the more so after two major career-threatening defeats and then the passing of his legendary mentor Emanuel ‘Manny’ Steward. 

Andy Lee decided to postpone a proposed homecoming world title defence in Ireland because victory in New York over Peter Quillin will transform him into a “global star”.

Boxing: British 2008 Olympian Billy Joe Saunders has pocketed a six-figure sum to step aside and allow Andy Lee defend his WBO middleweight title against Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin in New York.

Promoter Frank Warren is ready to bring world championship boxing back to Ireland this summer should he arrange a deal to promote a showdown between WBO champion Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders. 

Andy Lee has agreed to defend his WBO Middleweight title in New York in April, according to a report today.

The village of Castleconnell, Co Limerick gave Andy Lee, newly-crowned WBO Middleweight champion a homecoming reception to remember last night.

Forget being tired in the ring, Ireland’s newest world champion, Limerick boxer Andy Lee, must be exhausted with his seemingly endless homecoming.

A date for the first defence of Andy Lee’s new WBO middleweight title could be arranged before Christmas and promoter Frank Warren has revealed that a homecoming show in Ireland is "a viable situation".

Andy Lee and Adam Booth were in New York with Cork-Cuban heavyweight Mike Perez last July, but if feels much longer now, writes John Riordan.

You would have to go a long way before you find anybody with a bad word to say about Andy Lee.

IT SEEMED wholly appropriate that Andy Lee landed the punch that clinched this world title, the very same belt won by Steve Collins 20 years ago, moments after he had been rocked himself.

Ireland's Andy Lee became the WBO middleweight champion after a memorable night in Las Vegas.

Dressed in a black tracksuit with matching baseball cap, Andy Lee looks out from the vast balcony in his penthouse suite at the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan.

Stevie Collins Jnr put his nine-month injury lay-off behind him with a bizarre win in the early hours of Sunday morning in London, then set his sights on a pivotal 2015.

There will be a strange sense of familiarity for Andy Lee in Las Vegas on December 13 when he faces Matt Korobov, whose parents might even count the Limerick southpaw among their family friends.