An Irish-based Portuguese woman who wishes to marry her partner before their child is born has secured the permission of the High Court to challenge the Civil Registration Office's refusal to recognise her Portuguese divorce.

A mother, who along with one of her three young children is HIV positive, has secured the permission of the High Court to challenge the HSE's decision to cease making social welfare payments to her.

LIMERICK super-bantamweight, Willie “Big Bang” Casey has been handed the chance of a lifetime by Matchroom Sport by calling him up as replacement for Wayne McCullough, who has to withdraw from the Super Bantamweight Prizefighter event at York Hall, Bethnal Green, on May 29.

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.

KENNY EGAN could renew rivalry with China’s Zhang Ziaoping on the undercard to the Bernard Dunne-Ricardo Cordoba world title fight at The O2 on March 21.

A LENGTHY legal battle by a Nigerian woman to prevent the deportation of herself and her two daughters on grounds of fear of female genital mutilation in Nigeria ended in failure at the High Court yesterday when it upheld the deportation orders.

THE Boxing Union of Ireland last night cleared Peter McDonagh and Michael Gomez of any wrongdoing in last month’s controversial Irish lightweight title fight in Dublin.

FORMER British champion Michael Gomez is facing one final fight to clear his name after bringing his eventful 10-year professional career to a close.