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Last update: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

FORMER Irish Olympian Billy Walsh is predicting that whoever wins the 2008 Irish senior middleweight title will qualify for next summer’s Olympics in Beijing.

Fiona Coghlanâ€™s Rugby Diary

Last update: Thursday, December 27, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Anxious wait for the Six Nations call-upThree Sundays ago we at UL Bohs played our most difficult opponents to date in Blackrock. The south Dubliners boast a number of internationals in their ranks and have a good spread of quality players throughout the squad.

The Saints go marching in

Last update: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

ALTHOUGH there’s still plenty of action to come, DCU Saints have been among the early pacesetters in Irish basketball’s SuperLeague North-ern Conference. The talented squad are mostly Irish, with one Latvian and two Amer-icans also making their mark.

Lee proves heâ€™s all heart

Last update: Thursday, December 20, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Unbeaten Irish middleweight Andy Lee claimed the vacant Irish super middleweight title and registered his 14th straight professional win after Jason McKay retired on his stool at the end of round six at the National Stadium in Dublin last Saturday night.

Intercommunity soccer blitz takes Coolock by storm

Last update: Thursday, December 13, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Glin Road Community Centre in Coolock was the site of a fiercely-contested soccer blitz last Friday.

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Last update: Thursday, December 13, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

IRISH boxing chief Dominic O’Rourke reckons that some of the stars of the London 2012 Olympics will be on show in Donegal next weekend.

Selcuk makes his mark for Ireland

Last update: Thursday, December 13, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

THE NAME Selcuk Tidem recently appeared on the score-sheet for Ireland’s under-16 soccer team in a friendly away to Belgium.

Hatton ready for world title clash

Last update: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

RICKY HATTON is not making any predictions ahead of his WBC welterweight clash with Floyd Mayweather Jr at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this weekend, except that he is going to win.

Fiona Coghlanâ€™s Rugby Diary

Last update: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Training gets tough Straight back into training once more – we had another squad session last weekend. We covered much of the same as the previous weekend but with a higher intensity, and the coaches expected to see more from us.

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Last update: Thursday, December 6, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

The 2007 National Intermed-iate Championships will conclude this Friday night with finals in all weight categories at the National Stadium in Dublin.

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Last update: Thursday, November 29, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

The 2008 National Senior Championships will begin on Tuesday 8 January and run over four days, concluding on Friday 11 January, at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Ireland set to play in â€˜Home Championshipsâ€™

Last update: Thursday, November 29, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

ENGLAND’S failure to reach the Euro 2008 finals has raised the possibility of a ‘home championships’ series next summer featuring England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland – and the Republic of Ireland.

Young aims for the big leagues

Last update: Thursday, November 22, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

FORMER New Zealand U-21 midfielder Darren Young has admitted it has been a disappointing end to the season for Athlone Town in the Eircom First Division.

Fiona Coghlanâ€™s Rugby Diary

Big challenges lie aheadThe Irish 35-player squad has been announced, and in total 11 new players will get a chance to stake their claim to play for Ireland. It also sees the return to the squad of seasoned international players Patrique Kelly and Joy Neville, who return from a year’s travelling around the world. Unfor-tunately it also sees Rachel Boyd and Eimear O’Sulllivan taking a year out due to work commitments; hopefully we will see them back in the mix for next season, as they are quality players that still have a few years rugby left in them.

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IRISH boxing star Paddy Barnes has admitted it still hasn’t fully sunk in that he has qualified for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Poland ready for Euro 2008

The Polish community in Ireland was celebrating last Saturday after Poland booked their place for the Euro 2008 finals with a 2–0 home win over Belgium at the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow.

Foreign referees making their mark on Irish soccer

It is generally accepted that the first time a referee used a whistle to restore order at a soccer match was during and English league clash between Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Norfolk in 1878.

World Rally Câ€™ship comes to Ireland

Marcus Gronholm and Sebastien Loeb are neck-in-neck going into the penultimate stage of the World Rally Championships (WRC) which begin at Stormont in Belfast today.

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