ANDY LEE is aiming to produce a knockout performance against Willie Gibbs at the UL Arena tonight which will put the Limerick man back into contention for a world title shot.

JAMIE MOORE’S fight with Ciaran Healy for the Irish light middleweight title at the National Basketball Arena on Saturday night took on a new dimension yesterday when he found himself in line for a possible world title shot against John Duddy next spring.

HAD Andrew Murray taken the medical advice offered him, he would never have donned a pair of boxing gloves. But, do date, he has won three national senior titles as an amateur and, as a professional, holds the Irish light welterweight belt.

The Irish boxing boom continues apace this Saturday with two Irish titles up for grabs on the Ladbrokes.com Fight Night at the National Stadium in Dublin.

BERNARD DUNNE will be more than an interested spectator at the Kings Hall in Belfast on Saturday night when Wayne McCullough relaunches his boxing career against Kiko Martinez.

UNBEATEN Derryman John Duddy appears to be just two fights away from the fight of his dreams — a world title showdown with the new poster boy of the middleweight division, Kelly Pavlik, Brian Peters said yesterday.

IBA world middleweight champion John Duddy's next three fights will be in Ireland, his handler Eddie McLaughlin has confirmed.

AFTER taking the Big Apple by storm, John Duddy has finally decided to return to his roots for a belated European professional debut and a build-up to a European title shot.

The latest member of Northern Secretary Peter Hain’s ministerial team will today make his debut in the North as its Agriculture Minister.

PETER McDONAGH’s joy at shocking raging favourite Michael Gomez for boxing’s Irish lightweight title quickly evaporated yesterday after the Irish Boxing Union announced it was withholding his purse pending an investigation into allegations that the fight had been rigged.

Former IBO super-middleweight champion Brian Magee has been added to the bill of an exciting night of boxing at Dublin's National Stadium on January 28.

Sinn Féin was today preparing to capture its first-ever European Parliament seat in Northern Ireland.

All Ireland property developers Dunloe Ewart and the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society have teamed up to produce an ambitious multi-million pound plan which would transform a large area of south Belfast, it was revealed today.