It wasn’t until that last fight in Brooklyn that Andy Lee realised just how true some words of that neighbourhood’s most famous and notorious son really were.

In the stroll down Jones’s Road yesterday afternoon, the general consensus was that Dublin’s meeting with Longford in the Leinster football championship would be a rerun of Christians-Lions (Coliseum, vespers), with no guesses as to which side were going to be portraying the early converts, or the main course.

Médecins Sans Frontières says its warnings that the ebola epidemic was spiralling out of control and that it could not respond were dismissed as alarmist, writes Misha Hussain

Europe must form a group of specialists ready to tackle outbreaks like ebola, the man who discovered the disease almost 40 years ago has said.

The UK and the rest of Europe must form a group of specialists ready to tackle outbreaks like Ebola, the man who discovered the disease almost 40 years ago has said.

An experimental ebola vaccine has triggered promising immune responses from 20 healthy volunteers taking part in a preliminary trial.

Much of the reporting around ebola is rife with rumours and misconceptions,writes Fiona McLysaght.

Fifteen years ago, I found myself faced with a difficult decision. Back then, I worked in the real world. But I had a notion of becoming a journalist. In order to make the leap, I had to quit a job, take a loan from the bank, and return to full-time education.

Fear, panic and denial are the lethal hallmarks of the response to the worst Ebola outbreak in decades. Without global action,its deadly march could even reach Europe, writes Michael Clifford.

SATURDAY

“Well, yes, and here we go again...”

A further update on the condition of Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba, who is fighting for his life in hospital, will be released at some point later this morning.

Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba was rushed to hospital tonight after collapsing during this evening’s FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba was rushed to hospital tonight after collapsing during the first half of his team’s FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

The widow of Rwanda’s former president, wanted in connection with the country’s 1994 genocide, has won her court appeal against extradition from France.

WHILE David Haye was still spewing excuses in Hamburg a joke started swirling social networking sites that Wladimir Klitschko was going to have a tee-shirt mocked up showing him holding up his vanquished opponent’s severed toe.

RIGHT up there with ‘why would you do that?’, ‘what the hell did you say to her?’ and ‘where’s that tenner you owe me?’, ‘what’s it like being a reporter at big games?’, is the question I’m most asked.

STEVE COLLINS’ life has always been unusual. His parents were trailblazers in their own ways — his mother one of the world’s first commercial airline pilots, his father a stunt pilot whose tricks included ‘kicking’ a football with the plane’s wing.

FRENCH authorities yesterday arrested the widow of the former Rwandan president whose assassination in a plane crash is believed to have precipitated the 1994 genocide.

MUHAMMAD ALI met up with his Irish kinfolk yesterday when Ennis, home town of his great grandfather, Abe Grady welcomed back one of its own.

THE great Muhammad Ali clinched his latest title when he was declared the first honorary freeman of Ennis.

THE hearts of three female gorillas were set racing yesterday when they were shown a picture of their new foreign lover.

IT has been more than 10 years since cholera swept through refugee camps in Zaire.

A Spanish judge started proceedings against 40 members of the Rwandan military today on charges of terrorism and genocide.

‘THERE is always the shock in seeing him again. Women draw an audible breath. Men look down. They are reminded again of their lack of worth.’

Had Irish emigrants been entitled to vote, and if even a small fraction of them had exercised that right, undoubtedly they could have been the deciding factor in general elections here given the size of the country and the closeness of election results.

FRANCE’S best-known mercenary Bob Denard, who had a hand in numerous African wars and coups d’etat over 30 years, has died at the age of 78.

An arrest warrant was issued today for a former Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo warlord who took refuge inside a foreign embassy while his personal army and government troops fought in the capital.

GUNFIRE broke out yesterday near the home of a leading Congolese politician, prompting the UN to send scores of peacekeepers in armoured vehicles to remove foreign diplomats trapped inside.

A Rwandan rebel today pleaded not guilty to charges of killing eight tourists from Britain, the United States and New Zealand and a Ugandan tour guide who were on a gorilla-watching trip in 1999.

WE all know Uncle Gaybo is a broadcasting heavyweight. He’s been known to pull no punches. But soon he’ll come out of retirement and come face to face with one of the world’s most famous kings of the ring in front of a packed hall.

Derry 2-9 Westmeath 0-13

MORE than 120 passengers were sucked out of a transport plane to their deaths when its massive rear cargo door burst open at 33,000 feet over the Democratic Republic of Congo.

IT has been called the Belgian Congo, the Congo, Zaire and more recently the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

US transport planes airdropping relief supplies into Afghanistan will fly with fighter escorts.

Catholic nuns have been raped by priests, infected with Aids and forced to undergo abortions, according to a report.

American television's demands are likely to hold the key to Lennox Lewis' African adventure.

Lennox Lewis' hopes of following in the footsteps of Muhammed Ali could yet be dashed.

Lennox Lewis will make his next world heavyweight title defence in Johannesburg on April 21.

South African boxing promoter Joe Manyathi said he was asked by Lennox Lewis to stage a title fight between him and Mike Tyson in Johannesburg on July 21.