Andy Watters

1 day ago | irishnews.com | Andy Watters

DOWN have been starved of Sam Maguire football for three seasons and Mourne county mentor Mickey Donnelly says the county are preparing for Sunday’s clash with Clare like “it’s our All-Ireland final”. It’s not exactly win or bust for Down in Ennis, but with Leinster champions Louth and Division Two champs Monaghan to come, the losers at Cusack Park will probably struggle to get out of the group stage.

2 days ago | irishnews.com | Andy Watters

YOU wouldn’t have known it in the build-up, but Anto Cacace’s nerves were shredded as he prepared to face Leigh Wood on Saturday night. Wood made a habit of finding a way to win when the odds were against him. Afterall, the Nottingham battler came back from the brink to beat Michael Conlan, won a rematch against Mauricio Lara and came through an absolute war to beat Josh Warrington in a war in his last fight.

2 days ago | irishnews.com | Andy Watters

IT will be up to the GAA’s national Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to determine whether any players will be sanctioned for the mass brawl that took place after the final hooter in Saturday’s Ulster SFC final in Clones. The extra-time classic between Donegal and Armagh had just ended when angry scenes broke out near the tunnel after a jubilant Donegal player appeared to goad his counterparts in the Orchard County dugout.

3 days ago | irishnews.com | Andy Watters

A BELFAST homecoming against WBC super-featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster is the next target for Anto Cacace after his emphatic stoppage victory against Leigh Wood on Saturday night. After four competitive rounds at the Motorpoint Arena, Cacace changed tactics from mixing it to working behind a ramrod jab and that took the sting out of his opponent and the Nottingham crowd.

4 days ago | irishnews.com | Andy Watters

ANTO Cacace retained his IBO super-featherweight title with a ninth round stoppage win against Leigh Wood in a raucous Nottingham Arena. There was little to separate the fighters at the halfway stage but Cacace’s superior boxing skills began to have an impact and paved the way for the left hook he landed a minute into the ninth. The shot turned the fight his way. Wood winced as it landed and he was sent spiralling into the ropes as Cacace followed up.