US TV coverage of Michael Conlan’s Australian adventure will lead to regular homecoming bouts for the Belfast super-bantamweight, according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum.

Michael Conlan may be boxing in the shadow of Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane this weekend, but the Belfast man believes it is the ideal chance for him to shine as a pro.

Boxing great Manny Pacquiao has won a seat in the Philippine Senate, bringing him closer to a possible shot at the presidency.

Manny Pacquiao has pressed on with his campaign for a seat in the Philippine Senate despite a reported militant plot to kidnap him.

World Elite champion Michael Conlan has withdrawn from the Irish squad for the Gee Bee multi-nations in Finland because of injury.

The entire country went a little bit sports-mad this summer, so it comes as no surprise to hear Rugby World Cup 2015 is the phrase people in Ireland searched online for the most this year.

The same-sex marriage referendum, Ed Sheeran and miniature Guinness cakes were just some the most viewed and talked about videos and issues Irish people engaged with this year.

Carl Froch has revealed he is training every day because he remains open to offers for a comeback.

Manny Pacquiao is a really nice guy. and he proved it yet again when he gave college basketball players a ridiculous bonus when they won their league title.

Stepping out of the sliding doors of McCarran International Airport into a July mid-afternoon on the fringe of the desert is not the most settling of experiences.

Ireland’s Rory McIlroy may be golf’s top star right now but when it comes to earnings, boxer Floyd Mayweather is the undisputed No.1 in the world, topping the list of the highest-paid sportsman for the second year running.

Amir Khan once again set his sights on a fight with pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather after claiming a unanimous points win over battling American Chris Algieri in New York on Friday night.

Boxing fans across the country and their lawyers are calling the hyped-up fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr a fraud and want their money back, and then some.

Enda Kenny has congratulated David Cameron on his UK General Election victory, a prisoner has been found dead in his cell at Mountjoy Prison, a priest in Donegal has said he will be voting Yes in the Marriage Equality Referendum and Floyd Mayweather has branded Manny Pacquiao a “coward”. Catch up with this evening’s top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller paints some beautiful studies of birds - and maintains a number of nest cams around his gallery.

On several occasions last week, I listened to avid sports fans agonising over how they would watch the so-called ‘Fight of the Century’ between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

This would put Mayweather and Pacquiao to shame.

Rory McIlroy coming out on top at the WGC-Cadillac Match Play in San Francisco last week does not mean the new format at Harding Park worked perfectly – far from it.

Colin Cowherd believes Pacquiao’s shoulder injury is just a sales pitch for a rematch.

Manny Pacquiao will undergo surgery on a shoulder injury this week and could be out of action for up to a year following his unanimous points defeat by Floyd Mayweather, according to reports in the United States.

A 500% increase in the number of home repossessions; the shooting of a former IRA commander; the appeal by a doctor found guilty of assaulting police officers while under the influence of a date rape drug; a special report on whether the recovery is starting to flower on the high street and how Cork learned traditional hurling formations were a thing of the past. Catch up with this evening's top and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Floyd Mayweather Sr believes it is only once his son has retired that his genius will be truly appreciated.

Maybe there will have to be a law against Toulon, one denouncing them as bad for business because they are too good for everyone else.

If there was one moment that summed up this entire promotion, which reached frenzied levels of interest across the planet last week, it came as the bell rang for the start of the 12th round.

Sadness and disappointment gripped Filipinos after Manny Pacquiao’s defeat in his much-anticipated fight against American Floyd Mayweather Jr. but they still considered the boxing icon a national hero.

Manny Pacquiao revealed he was almost forced to postpone his Floyd Mayweather super fight because of a painful shoulder injury, which he says affected his performance.

FLOYD Mayweather described the biggest fight of the generation as just another day at the office, and he was right.

Already a sure-fire fiscal phenomenon outside the ring, what remains to be seen is how the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao match-up will ultimately unfold inside it.

Floyd Mayweather has declared “the time is now” as the gaze of the sporting world turns to Las Vegas for a seismic showdown with Manny Pacquiao that will end five years of disillusion.

The most surprising thing about the story that revealed how Manny Pacquiao had literally saved a woman’s life with his words, was that it was not even that surprising.

Mike Tyson has dismissed Floyd ‘Pretty Boy’ Mayweather’s claims that he is greater than Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson and instead labelled him a delusional “small, scared man”.

Boxing’s back off the canvass with the billion dollar fight of the century — and that’s bad news for the upstart UFC bidding to muscle in on the money.

An officer at a Philippine electric company has urged customers to turn off major appliances to help prevent outages that have recently plagued his province so people can watch the much-awaited fight between Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

A (not so) learned sage once altered the expression “it’s better late than never” by including the addendum “but never late is better”. 

In the middle of the utter chaos of every Las Vegas fight week, there is always an hour or so of excruciating boredom. This hour is so tedious it is almost comical.

The most pressure Rory McIlroy faces all week could be the quarter-finals of the Match Play Championship in San Francisco.

Floyd Mayweather will view his success in providing financial security for his family as a greater achievement than retiring undefeated.

“You a fight fan?” the owner of my laundromat asked as he leaned back against a washing machine, his arm awkwardly stretched back over the whirring of a spin cycle.

He may be Pacman to most of the world, but in his homeland, Pacquiao is the ‘Pambansang Ninong’ — national godfather

Floyd Mayweather Sr remembers the moment he discovered his son had a feel for the family business.