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Two of Galway’s most famous boxers, world title challenger Sean Mannion and Olympian Francie Barrett, feature in a new book entitled Fight of My Life, now available on Amazon.

Galway boxer Jason 'Hands of Stone' Myers continued his unbeaten professional streak on Saturday, October 18 in Letterkenny, Donegal.

Westpark’s Corey O’Malley won with a first round stoppage in Thailand last Friday, February 7.

The inaugural juniors only K-1/Kickboxing event, 'The Clash At Clonboo' took place in Regans Lounge, Clonboo on Sunday, January 19.

Eight year old schoolboy Charlie Sweeney, who is a pupil of Radharc a Mara Primary School, Mervue, will represent Ireland at the famous Millrose Games indoor athletics meet in New York on February 11.

Applications from sports clubs in Athlone and County Westmeath are now invited under the fourth Texaco Support for Sport initiative in which a fund of €130,000 will be divided in €5,000 amounts and distributed to successful applicants in each of the twenty-six counties.

A team of kickboxers from the Galway Black Dragon Kickboxing Gym were given a Mayoral Reception at Galway City Hall recently for their outstanding achievements at the Unified World Kickboxing Championships in Tuscany back in October.

Applications from sports clubs in Athlone and County Westmeath are now invited under the fourth Texaco Support for Sport initiative in which a fund of €130,000 will be divided in €5,000 amounts and distributed to successful applicants in each of the twenty-six counties.

Larry was the eldest child of Jack and Ethel Cheevers who lived on Dalysfort Road in Salthill. They were the owners of the Forster Park Hotel and the iconic Park Café which was attached to it. Larry was educated in the Jes and in Castleknock College and went on to study dentistry in UCG — you could only do first year there at the time — and later in UCD where he finished the course and qualified.

Buccaneers Touch Rugby travelled to Portlaoise RFC on Saturday last for the opening round of this year’s Development Touch Series (DTS).