Gerry Storey News Today

A song about the life of pioneering trade unionist and peacemaker Baroness May Blood is set to be released just before Christmas.

Michael Watson steals the show at the seventh annual British Ex-Boxers Hall of Fame ceremony, with our fearless editor, Matt Christie, also inducted

Carl Frampton can walk into retirement with his head held high Carl Frampton remains classy to the end, writes Matt Christie THEY say life flashes before the eyes of those approaching death. When Carl Frampton dropped in cinematic slow motion in the sixth round of his bout with Jamel Herring, it was almost as if he’d relived his entire career before his backside hit the canvas. Because the look in his eyes as he turned to pick up the referee’s count said it all: It was over. From his days w...

Freddie Barr deserves recognition KINGSTON boxing coach Freddie Barr passed away on January 19. He was 88 years old. He was an England coach, who took boxers to a sequence of Olympic Games, and a highly respected figure in the amateur boxing. Barr deserves recognition for the hundreds of boxers he guided over a period of decades, including professional fighters and successful internationals. Bobby Wells, bronze medallist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was just one of the charges Barr brought...

If any place in the world should have a sports museum it should be Northern Ireland/Ulster. For such a small population, we literally punch way above our weight.