Carl Frampton has predicted that Saturday night’s showdown with Scott Quigg will be a “one-sided, easy night” as the pair prepare to go head to head at today’s pre-fight press conference.

Barry McGuigan believes Saturday’s world-title unification clash is the most important fight of Carl Frampton’s career as the Belfast native prepares to finally meet long-time rival Scott Quigg. 

Carl Frampton revealed he will earn in excess of the £1.5 million (€2.1m) promoter Eddie Hearn had previously offered him to fight Scott Quigg when the pair fight in Manchester next year.

It’s like the Champions League of golf but unlike the continent’s premier football tournament which has yet to be retained by any club, Muskerry’s Niall Gorey is hopeful the Cork club can become the first back-to-back winners of the AIG Barton Shield for 18 years.

It ended with Carl Frampton enjoying that most familiar vantage point, the elevated view of his surroundings as trainer Shane McGuigan raised him aloft in victory.

The IBF super-bantamweight champion successfully defended his world title on Saturday night, stopping 25-year-old Californian challenger Chris Avalos (25-3) in the fifth round to extend his undefeated record to 20-0 (14 knockouts).

Carl Frampton retained his IBF super-bantamweight title with an impressive fifth-round stoppage of mandatory challenger Chris Avalos at a raucous Odyssey Arena in Belfast.

Sinn Féin has admitted orchestrating the bulk of the 400 submissions which Kerry County Council received from members of the public, calling for the maximum reduction in local property tax.

Final tallies from Killarney are in and the quota is likely to be 2,000.

Can-Linn’s Kasey Smith is set to become Ireland’s entry into Eurovision this year, despite controversy surrounding her connection to music mogul Louis Walsh.

It has been some year for Royal Portrush.

The time-honoured tradition of lumping it into the full-forward line was all Cavan needed here at Brewster Park to reach their third Ulster U21 final in-a-row.

Belfast’s Carl Frampton has retained his Commonwealth super-bantamweight crown with victory over Ghana’s Prosper Ankrah in Sheffield on Saturday night.

TWO first-half goals from Raymond Wilkinson, the first of them after just 43 seconds, guided Ballinderry to their 12th Derry SFC title yesterday.

X FACTOR finalist, Eoghan Quigg will hold talks with Louis Walsh in the New Year about his future management and a tour with Boyzone.

Eoghan Quigg may have lost out on the 'X Factor' crown – but he describes meeting fellow contestant Diana Vickers as the best experience of his life.

'X-Factor' hopeful Diana Vickers became the ninth contestant to be booted off the show last night.

Police in the North have confirmed a man being questioned about his father's suspicious death has been released.