Katie Taylor and Sam Bennett among nominees for 2020 RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year
Ciarán Kilkenny, Gearóid Hegarty, Sanita Puspure and Colin Keane are also in the running.
Ciarán Kilkenny, Gearóid Hegarty, Sanita Puspure and Colin Keane are also in the running.
Former Peamount star Ruth Comeford on the influences that shaped her career.
The UFC star and the Bray boxer were among the nominees for an award decided by a public vote.
The Irish icon has retained the prestigious end-of-year award and also remains top of the BWAA’s pound-for-pound rankings.
Multi-billion-pound streaming giant DAZN is now live in Ireland, but they see an Irish sporting icon as a key part of their global expansion plans.
LeBron James, Dustin Johnson and Khabib Nurmagomedov also make the list.
With Jane Couch watching on, it was fitting that Katie Taylor and co. put their fists through the glass ceiling at Wembley Arena, of all places.
Meanwhile, in more good news for the 34-year-old Bray native, she has just been named Ring Magazine’s pound-for-pound number one fighter.
The Irish icon dropped Miriam Gutierrez and hurt in her several rounds but had to settle for an almost-perfect unanimous decision.
Katie Taylor’s latest title defence and England v Ireland are up for discussion as Kathleen McNamee and Johnny Ward join us on this week’s edition of The Punt.
Katie Taylor on her free-to-air fight this Saturday, her cultural significance in professional boxing, and the debate over female fighters’ earnings.
Taylor v Gutierrez to be show on Sky Sports Mix as well as YouTube, Facebook and the Sky Sports website.
Taylor will take on unbeaten Spaniard Miriam Gutierrez, promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed.
Three-weight world champion Claressa Shields tops Ring Magazine’s list.
Delfine Persoon said she believed Taylor deserved her unanimous decision following another close encounter between the two rivals.
Scrutinous eyes not only from Ireland but from all corners of the globe will be on her performance tonight, the weight of the world on her shoulders.
Delfine Persoon sets out to break Irish hearts and become arguably the greatest ever female professional boxer tonight.
The Belgian weighed in almost 2.5lbs heavier than she did for their original scrap, but was comfortably under the 135-pound limit.
Ahead of her eagerly anticipated rematch with Delfine Persoon on Saturday, Katie Taylor says she is ‘looking forward to shutting up everyone that has criticised me’.
The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to open tomorrow but instead of parading around Japan’s National Stadium, medal prospect Michaela Walsh will be running north Belfast’s roads.
A sequel to their June 2019 classic at Madison Square Garden, during which Taylor emerged as a controversial winner, is in the works.
A tweet from Taylor sparked an online war of words between Serrano, Eddie Hearn and Lou DiBella, and female boxing’s biggest fight now looks unlikely.
Ireland’s James Tennyson will also fight on one of Matchroom’s ‘Fight Camp’ shows, while there may be room yet for Jason Quigley to feature.
Amanda Serrano was expected to sign on for the clash on the Dillian Whyte v Alexander Povetkin card.
Ireland’s Gráinne Walsh discusses her circuitous sporting journey.
The British Boxing Board of Control indicated bouts can return in two months’ time subject to a series of strict regulations.
‘Whatever she brings, I’ll be able to bring it harder,’ said the seven-time world champion from Puerto Rico.
Taylor was due to defend her status as undisputed lightweight champion against Amanda Serrano last weekend.
The last two decades have been memorable in Irish sport in so many different ways. We have picked our stars of the century. Now tell us what you think.
Claressa Shields predicts Amanda Serrano v Katie Taylor will work out 60:40 in the Puerto Rican’s favour.
‘I said to my family: ‘You realise you’ve already been in isolation so much when you have to go into quarantine and nothing about your personal life changes.”
Promoter Eddie Hearn has confirmed that the 2 May card in Manchester, which included Dillian Whyte versus Alexander Povetkin as the co-main event, has been postponed.
Confirmation will be made this week, with promoter Eddie Hearn set to hit pause on all boxing events until the summer at least.
Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano for the undisputed lightweight title: a fight with plenty of needle and a fight to move the needle.
The Wicklow woman faces toughest test of her professional career when she meets Amanda Serrano in Manchester on 2 May.
The fight will be on the undercard of the Regis Prograis and Maurice Hooker main event.
Katelynn Phelan, 19, took her inspiration not from Bray, but from Brooklyn, and wants to blaze a trail down a road less travelled.
‘There’s nothing really to her,’ said the Puerto Rican puncher, who is set to meet her Irish adversary this spring.
Taylor and longtime rival, seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano, could clash in London for the Irishwoman’s undisputed title.