Maybe this New York soccer friendly will be no more than a money-spinning afterthought tacked onto a busy end-of-season schedule.

Since meeting legendary pianist and broadcaster Marian McPartland at 15 years of age American saxophonist Chris Potter has been on a musical journey.

IT was the passion of the Shannon Gaels man who drove Cork’s Paul Kerrigan and Dublin’s Kevin Nolan out to the northern end of Queens to show him the club’s new home pitch for the next 25 years.

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.

IT was Christmas Eve babe, and I wasn’t in the drunk tank.

IT’S all about the location, in a Waterford county hot-spot – that, and five lovely acres with views.

MICHAEL ROCHE, one of Bernard Dunne’s closest friends in boxing circles, said yesterday that the now former WBA world super bantamweight champion should not even consider retirement at this stage.

IT is a case of Sunnyside out, and sunnyside in, with this Kilmore Quay, Wexford thatched home, with a twist.

A 23-YEAR-OLD Irishman has been arrested in New York on suspicion of murdering his American ex-girlfriend.

BILLY WALSH won his first national boxing title in City Hall back in 1985 when the championships were staged in Cork as part of the “Cork 800” celebrations where Sugar Ray Leonard was among the celebrities watching him perform.

DAVID BARRETT (Rylane) bids to emulate older brother Seanie by winning the light welterweight title at the Irish intermediate boxing championship finals at the National Stadium tonight.

A 50-year-old Irishman has reportedly been stabbed to death during a double murder in New York.

UNABLE to determine which calf was born to the nation’s first cow diagnosed with mad cow disease, US federal officials plan to kill a herd of 450 calves out of “an abundance of caution.”

“GET your house in order first, that is, check deeds and title before launching a property on the market,” says auctioneer, Jean Shanahan.