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.

TUAM STARS, the most prolific winners of the Galway SFC but without a win since 1984, reached their first final since 1995 after ousting favourites Salthill/Knocknacarra in this replay at Tuam Stadium yesterday.

KENNY EGAN booked his place on Irish team for the World Championships in Baku with a 13-5 victory over Antrim heavyweight Stephen Ward, in the finals of the box-off on Saturday.

A MAN has pleaded guilty to two counts of threatening to kill the sister of murdered Limerick man Roy Collins.

The jury in the Eamonn Lillis murder trial has been given six possible decisions it can make, but it has been told that any decision must be unanimous.

IT was a match where they were strongly challenged, but during the critical closing phase Armagh produced the goods to swing yesterday’s ESB All-Ireland MFC final at Croke Park in their direction.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE (St Michael’s, Athy) and Carl Frampton (Midland) claim star billing when they meet for the third time in a year in the featherweight final at the National Senior Championships in the National Stadium tonight.

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.

OUR football correspondent LIAM MACKEY is back in top form and full of energy.

RAY MOYLETT from Westport defeated Daniyar Yeleussino of Kazakhstan to take gold and win Ireland’s first medal at the world youth boxing championship in Guadalajara, Mexico on Saturday.

An alcoholic courier drug addict who tried to slit his throat after being arrested for importing cocaine valued over €200,000 has been given a six and a half year sentence.

BRIAN BARRETT, a cousin of former Irish Olympian Francis Barrett, brought the curtain down on a marathon session of National Intermediate Championships quarter-finals with a thrilling win over Patrick O’Shea at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday night.

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.

JUST a couple of weeks after a sell-out event at the same venue, Rylane Boxing Club will stage another boxing extravaganza at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom on Friday, February 23.