John Mitchel’s (Lancashire)1-9 Moate All Whites (Westmeath) 1-6: All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final: Merseyside could have something to celebrate this season after all following John Mitchel’s qualification for the All-Ireland Club JFC final for the second time in their history at Pairc Tailteann, Navan, yesterday.

Leinster Club JFC final: Moate All Whites (Westmeath) 1-11 Straffan (Kildare) 0-10

A night of drama at the National Stadium last night in the 2013 Elite National Championships, the birth of a new legend, the end of another as the great light-heavyweight Kenneth Egan, seeking a record 11th title in a record 13 consecutive final appearances, was forced to give way for the third year in succession to the more powerful teenager, Joe Ward.

Drama and disappointment at the opening weekend of the Elite National Boxing Championships at the National Stadium last night, three more champions losing their titles even before a punch was thrown.

The Gmelchs recorded Travellers’ lives in 1971. A new documentary sees them catch up 40 years later, Colette Sheridan reports

Buyers from the UK and from Donegal to Waterford were bidding for the many five star bulls on offer at Tullamore in the Hereford Society’s Premier Bull Sale.

Super sub Conchúr Ó Duibhir’s goal seven minutes from time secured victory for Coláiste Eoin in this Leinster Colleges SAFC semi-final at Navan’s Pairc Tailteann on Saturday.

JOE WARD (Moate) got his defence of his light heavyweight title off to a flying start at the Elite National finals at the National Stadium last night and immediately threw down the gauntlet to Kenny Egan, who he beat to claim it last year.

KENNY EGAN kept his Olympic dream alive with an emphatic victory over fellow Dubliner Michael Frayne (St. Mary’s) in the Elite Boxing Championship quarter-finals at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

One of the two men who helped gunman Raoul Moat during his shotgun rampage - which left a man dead and a police officer blinded – lost a bid to win a reduction in his “excessive” sentence today.

THE Irish boxers head into the second and final week of the world boxing championships in Baku with nine members of the 10-man team still standing and the prospect of Olympic qualification looming midweek.

THE Boxing Council of the IABA will meet at 11am today to select a team for the World Championships while the boxers settle into their training camp in Assisi alongside Olympic hopefuls from Italy, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

THIS may have been a box-off to select the team for the world championships and the first opportunity to qualify for next year’s Olympic Games but none of the recent medallists were in sight when the tournament got under way last night at the National Stadium.

WORLD Youth champion Joe Ward, Darren O’Neill, John Joe Nevin and Con Sheehan all advanced to today’s finals at the Feliks Stamm Multi-Nations tournament following semi-final wins yesterday.

JOE WARD (Moate) had a word of warning for Kenny Egan on Saturday night after he comprehensively outpointed former world youths bronze medallist Davy Joe Joyce (St. Michael’s, Athy) in the semi-finals of the national senior championships to qualify for the finals.

KENNETH EGAN began his quest for an unprecedented 11th successive national senior title at the National Stadium last night with a second-round stoppage of Thomas Roohan (Ballincarrow, Sligo) and a claim that the only man who can beat him is himself.

A LORCAN DOLAN goal two minutes from time secured a semi-final spot for Moate CS at Stillorgan yesterday.

ERIC DONOVAN (St. Michael’s, Athy) produced one of the best ever performances to outpoint his clubmate, David Oliver Joyce, 17-10 and retain his lightweight title when the National senior boxing championships concluded at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

KENNETH EGAN kept on course for an historic 10th successive Irish senior title with a one-sided 21-2 victory over Denis Hogan (Grangecon) in last night’s light heavyweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

JOHN JOE NEVIN and Katie Taylor completed a fantastic season by claiming the top awards at the IABA Annual Awards ceremony at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin last night.

Tony Hayes (K Club) set the pace after the opening round of the 54 holes Irish Seniors Amateur Close Championship, sponsored by Tourism Malaysia, when he shot a one under par 71 at Roscommon Golf Club.

ANDREW STRACEY (Littlestone GC, Kent), fired a final round 78 to win the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship at Bangor Golf Club yesterday.

KENNETH EGAN is within one victory of a spectacular ninth successive national senior title following last night’s comprehensive defeat of Denis Hogan (Grangecon) in the first light heavyweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St Michael’s, Athy) stamped his name on the list for next month’s European championships with an emphatic 20-4 victory over the plucky Ballymena light welterweight, Stephen Donnelly (All Saints), in the finals of the open tournament held to help select the team for Liverpool.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Darren O’Neill took different routes but each had decisive semi-final victories to qualify for tonight’s middleweight showdown at the finals of the national championships at the National Stadium.

TYSON FUREY weighed in for the national senior boxing championships at the National Stadium yesterday morning but he will have to produce evidence that he has been resident in the country for 12 months before he can take his place in the semi-finals tonight.

IRISH AMATEUR boxing president Dominic O’Rourke believes the future stars of Irish boxing will be on display at the National Intermediate Championships which glove off at the National Stadium tonight.

ONE of the high points of the Irish sport horse breeding year again attracted big interest at Limerick Show.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named a twelve strong squad for the European Schoolboy Championships in England next month

DARREN SUTHERLAND packed eight months of frustration into five minutes of boxing last night before he stopped Eddie Healy (Portlaoise) midway through the third round of the middleweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

Carlow captured the first national title of the week The National Finals of the AA Insurance take place at Headfort Golf Club with a 2-1 win against Limerick.

OWNER Desmond Gibson from Co Down and breeder Thomas Power from Dungarvan, Co Waterford, produced Tinahely Show’s 2006 Red Mills Non-thoroughbred Two-year-old All Ireland colts/gelding champion, by Puissance out of Artic Gem (by Artic View).

USA's J Baldwin leads the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship after three rounds.

American J Baldwin has taken over the lead at the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship from Louth’s B Reddan.

Co Louth's B Reddan leads the Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship after the first round at Limerick Golf Club.

Dunmurry's Darren Crowe is determined to break his title hoodoo in the Radisson SAS West of Ireland championship at Rosses Point.

HAVING ousted the holders Enniscrone in Thursday’s semi-final, Moate overcame Newcastle West by three and a half matches to one and a half to capture the BMW sponsored Irish Mixed Foursomes at Monkstown Golf Club yesterday.

Irish Amateur Close Championship at Westport Golf Club

East of Ireland Championship 2005

The Irish Seniors Amateur Open Championship at The Royal County Down Golf club.

ANDY LEE will be the star attraction again when he defends his middleweight title at the finals of the national championships in the National Stadium tonight.