Olympic finalist John Joe Nevin wants a shot at an American idol after posting a career-best victory at London’s York Hall on Saturday.

When I was in Ascot on Saturday watching the rugby and how disappointing it was after all the hype which surrounded it and the team, it got me thinking and comparing it with our own sport.

As Olympian Michael Carruth prepares to fight for charity, Deirdre Reynolds looks at the growing appeal of boxing

HE’S a former Olympic boxing gold medal winner, but when it comes to his latest sporting challenge, 51-year-old Michael Carruth says he’s a “raw beginner”.

Bingo nights and white-collar boxing. Strictly Come Dancing and race meetings.

Olympic champion Michael Carruth believes that three-time European champion Joe Ward has Julio La Cruz’s number on the road to Tokyo 2020.

Eddie Hearn believes Katie Taylor can claim all four lightweight titles before the year is out.

Rivals Kilkenny and Tipperary meet again tomorrow in the league final in Nowlan Park. Anthony Daly says this Kilkenny group know by this stage that if they’re not producing the goods, Brian Cody will get someone else to do it

On the day Dublin played Waterford in the relegation final in Walsh Park in 2014, we still had four minutes before we had to leave the dressing room when I walked out the door. “I’ve enough said,” I told the players. “I’m going.” I high-tailed, banged the door and was gone.

Greater belief was the secret to the ascent of Skibbereen pair Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan to the top of their sport in 2018, according to O’Driscoll.

Comedians tend to worry a lot about the ‘too soon’ moment, that minefield of a border between the darkly funny and the wincingly crass.

Helen O’Callaghan on a new cinema advert about CF

All may have appeared to have changed utterly in Irish boxing, but the presence of veteran Darren O’Neill in tonight’s National Elite Championship finals is both a link to glories of the recent past as well as the possibility of a brighter future.

It is inevitable that the arrest of Pat Hickey in Rio de Janeiro will give rise to schadenfreude among more than a few people, writes Michael Clifford

Boxing chiefs have conceded that suspended fighter Michael O’Reilly is unlikely to clear his name in time to make his first bout following a failed doping test.

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

The last time ex-Olympians met in an Irish elite welterweight final the winner went on to win an Olympic gold.

They are the most scrutinised, most spoken about team in the country with everyone having an opinion on them.

Irish boxing wants to put the “bronze age” behind it at the AIBA World Men’s Elite Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Billy Walsh insists that boxing’s high-performance unit has the strength in depth to survive the loss of John Joe Nevin to the professional ranks — and Michael Conlan too, if it comes to that.

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Few people know the words of ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’, and fewer still know what they mean, so why, asks Ryle Dwyer, is playing ‘Ireland’s Call’ at rugby matches such a big deal?

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Olympic Gold medallist and world champion Katie Taylor was named as the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year.

As expected, Katie Taylor was last night named the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year for 2012.

Michael Carruth has said he expects to see Billy Walsh and Zaur Antia re-appointed to their positions as head coach and technical coach of boxing’s High Performance Unit, but only after “a bit of niggling”.

Billy Walsh has promised that anything that can be done to keep Katie Taylor within boxing’s amateur ranks and on course for another shot at Olympic gold in four years’ time will be done.

John Joe Nevin has won a silver medal in the bantamweight boxing at the Olympics.

Twenty four hours after winning an Olympic gold medal life has already begun to change for boxer Katie Taylor.

It is 20 years ago this week since Irish boxer Michael Carruth won his gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics and he says he is happy to share the feeling with Katie Taylor, who made history by winning gold in London yesterday.

IT was history in the making — an historic day for boxing and for the whole Olympic movement as the first three gold medals in women’s boxing were decided. And a dream realised for Ireland’s Katie Taylor, the driving force to have the discipline added to the Olympic programme.

Katie Taylor’s father and trainer Peter has insisted he stayed calm throughout his daughter’s heart-stopping Olympic final win as he knew it was her destiny to win gold.

Katie Taylor expressed her “huge relief” after crowning her glittering career with an Olympic boxing gold medal with a gruelling 10-8 victory over experienced Russian Sofya Ochigava at ExCeL.

London's ExCel arena became a part of Ireland this afternoon as legions of supporters decked in green, white and gold packed into South Arena 2 before 4:45pm to watch the person who would ultimately become Ireland's latest Olympic Gold medallist - Bray heroine Katie Taylor.

God knows, RTE have got their money’s worth from Jimmy Magee over the years.

Irish Olympic medals are something like London buses — you wait for ages for one to come along and then three arrive together.

While the vast Irish contingent was raising the decibel level at London’s ExCel Arena yesterday, RTÉ’s stars were roaring Katie Taylor on to glory at the launch of the station’s autumn schedule.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Irish boxing’s greatest achievement — the day Michael Carruth won Irish boxing’s first gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona and Wayne McCullagh added a silver.

All eyes will be on Ireland's golden girl Katie Taylor when she makes her Olympic debut this afternoon.

Kenneth Egan has said he feels he lost out on a gold medal at the Beijing Games.

You can be sure he’d no longer make light-middleweight.

Jedward-mania hit the streets of Dublin as the pop duo carried the Olympic Torch through the capital.