Feeding Frenzy

Loyalist flag protests which are damaging Belfast’s economy on the busiest day of the week should be moved to Saturday mornings, city centre traders have said.

RUBY WALSH makes his first return to race-riding in Britain since being suspended under the new whip rules at Aintree when he heads to Wetherby for one mount today.

JOHN Kiely’s Oneeightofamile made a victorious return to hurdling in the featured Dermot Casey-Hire Sales and Tree Services Hurdle at Cork’s well-attended jumps fixture last night.

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.

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.

RECESSION blues were put on ice as old Celtic Tiger champagne times sparkled in west Clare for the wedding of singer Andrea Corr and Brett Desmond.

A SKYDIVER who survived a 100ft plunge when his chute malfunctioned has been found dead.

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.

A SKYDIVER who miraculously cheated death when he plummeted to the ground as he tried to land in the Californian desert was yesterday flown back to Northern Ireland by air ambulance.

A Co Tyrone man has survived a nightmare parachute jump in the US in which he plunged to earth after his chute malfunctioned.

CBC CORK booked their place in the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup final with a hard-fought victory over gutsy Glenstal at Clanwilliam yesterday.

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THE powerful Russians will visit Ireland a the end of the month to box two internationals, one at the National Stadium on April 27 and the other at Athlone IT on April 29.

Ireland will take on Russia in two internationals at the end of this month the Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed.

FRAN BERRY made a flying visit, literally, to ride in the first two races at Tipperary yesterday and then sprinted to a waiting helicopter to get to Faryhouse to partner Osterhase.

PAUL NOLAN'S Cuan Na Grai completed a hat-trick with a very decent performance in the Novice Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

A MAN cheated death yesterday when he jumped from the upstairs window of a house which was engulfed in flames.

A GRAND total of 85 boats turned out for the opening race of the C.H. Marine Autumn League at the Royal Cork YC in Crosshaven where the skippers and crews just could not have had it any better.

TEDDY bears took to the skies yesterday to help raise €10,000 for the National Children’s Hospital in Crumlin.