Belfast’s Paddy Gallagher took on Dublin’s Paul Ryan in an middleweight contest in Croke Park on Saturday evening. The fight was a messy one, not one of clean shots nor slick footwork; the pair grappled throughout. The Belfast man did land the biggest punch of the bout in the fifth with a huge right hand. Ryan was lucky to make it back to his corner at the end of the round and unfortunately Gallagher couldn’t build upon this momentum and inflict further damage in the sixth. It didn’t seem to matter though as the judges awarded him the win.
WEST Belfast MP Paul Maskey has called on Irish broadcaster RTÉ to make boxer Katie Taylor's historic final fight available to watch for viewers in the North.
The principal of the north's largest Irish-medium school has called for more teachers to be trained in specialist subjects in order for the school to be able to provide more A-Levels, saying that the school are paying out of their own pocket to train teachers to plug gaps in their workforce.
