Andy Lee’s manager and coach Adam Booth believes that it will be a triumphant homecoming for the Limerick southpaw at Thomond Park.

Talks about Andy Lee’s summer world title defence will begin this week after the World Boxing Organisation today sent out letters instructing all parties to get the ball rolling on his mandatory challenge from Billy Joe Saunders.

Andy Lee may be forced to scrap his plans for a world-title defence as his mandatory challenger Billy Joe Saunders has stepped up his efforts to book a date with the champion.

Van Morrison has written a letter to a public relations guru to set the record straight over the handling of allegations that he fathered a child with his former tour manager.

A Dublin man has been acquitted by direction of the trial judge of robbery and of falsely imprisoning a Brinks Allied employee, his mother, and a child.

Dublin-based firm Actavis, one of the world’s largest generic-drugs makers by market value, has agreed to buy Forest Laboratories for about $25bn (€18bn).

Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan believes he has found the critical flaw in Billy Joe Saunders arsenal, which will lead to a knockout victory for the Corkman this evening.

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Dean Saunders is convinced Kevin Doyle can get back to making sweet music for Wolves now that, as the manager puts it, “the piano is off his back”.

A father of three in the UK has been found guilty of having intercourse with his ex-wife’s bull mastiff dog.

A BARRISTER told a taxi driver “I’m going to die”, hours before he was killed by police after blasting a shotgun through a window of his home.

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A senior Jamaican military officer said troops should be given more powers to help fight spiralling crime in the Caribbean country.

A GUNMAN wrote a tender message to his wife while besieged in his home by police marksmen, it was claimed today.

Dignitaries and sailors crowded into a Nova Scotia church today for the funeral of a Canadian submarine crew member killed by an onboard fire in the North Atlantic last week.

JONATHAN Saunders brought Bauhaus to life in his third-ever showing at London Fashion Week, while veteran designer Paul Smith opted for sober lines brightened by a riot of flowers.

Helicopters and army trackers were brought in today to help search for a British teenager missing in tropical northeast Australia.

A man held for questioning about terrorist attacks in Greece has reportedly confessed to killing British military attache Stephen Saunders.