Rebels ready to rumble in charity show

CORK footballers, who have been training with Rylane Boxing Club for the past six weeks, will show off their new skills when they touch gloves in a celebrity charity boxing tournament at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, on December 27.

It’s hardly surprising tickets are selling like proverbial hot cakes with such an array of talent on show. The proceeds will go to ‘Breaking the Silence’, a Cobh-based charity that conducts research initiatives to determine how best to support the community around suicide and provides Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, as well as courses.

For more than six weeks, 24 members of the Cork football panel have been training under Dan Lane, one of the country’s leading boxing coaches, at Rylane Boxing Club just to keep ticking over in the off-season.