Katie Taylor will make her first appearance in Cork tomorrow night in her penultimate bout in Ireland before she jets off for the 2012 World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where she’ll be hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

People must help each other through the big freeze as temperatures are set to plunge even further, it was warned today.

TWO years ago Kenneth Egan was at a crossroads in his boxing career after a disappointing performance at the world championships in Chicago while qualification for the Olympics still eluded him.

Gardaí at Ballyfermot in Dublin are renewing their appeal for help in tracing the whereabouts of 74-year-old Seamus Clarke.

Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing a 74-year-old Dublin man who has been missing from his home for the past three days.

Andy Lee (St Francis, Limerick, Ireland) lost 28-17 to Lukas Wilaschek (Germany)

One of the oldest people in Ireland, Galway woman Brigid Derrane, has died at the age of 109.