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Katie Taylor’s last fight will be an emotional farewell for a quietly defiant pioneer

“I won’t be like Tyson Fury, coming back again and again,” Katie Taylor told me with a little smile a few years ago as she explained how, when she finally retired, she would leave boxing for good. The moment is almost here because, on Saturday night, in front of 80,000 fans at a fevered Croke Park, Taylor will fight for the very last time. She will depart as a quietly defiant pioneer and an overwhelming force for good – both in Ireland and women’s boxing.

Car crash leaves Davis-Woodhall facing late decision on Budapest event

Sept 2 : Olympic long jump champion Tara Davis-Woodhall has been unable to train ahead of next week's World Athletics Ultimate Championship after suffering a severe concussion in a car accident, casting doubt over her participation in the event.

Dublin in search of new women’s football manager as joint bosses Paul Casey and Derek Murray step down

Dublin are on the lookout for a new women’s senior football manager after joint bosses Paul Casey and Derek Murray informed the county board they would not be seeking a third year at the helm.

Eddie Hearn: Katie Taylor’s Croke Park ring walk will be one of boxing’s greatest moments

THE sell never ends. The last of the tickets for Katie Taylor’s farewell fight at Croke Park was snapped up within 30 minutes.

Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’

Fight week on Dublin’s northside. Katie Taylor walks into her last few days as a boxer the same way she hopes to walk out. Fists clenched, smile wide, the roars of a partisan crowd assailing her. Ready for the cavalcade of lasts that lie before her as the hours tick down to Croke Park on Saturday night.

Na Fianna hopeful that Donal Burke will return for latter stages of Dublin championship

Na Fianna are hopeful that star forward Donal Burke will be able to return to action in approximately four weeks after scans showed the Dublin hurler did not suffer a cruciate knee ligament tear.

Katie Taylor: ‘The most important thing is that I get my hand raised on Saturday night’

Strip away the romance of the Katie Taylor story, excise the Hollywood-style screenplay that Tinseltown will surely transfer to celluloid sooner rather than later, and there is one critical last act to be written in a career that comes to a close in Croke Park this Saturday.

‘Pump the jab’: A bluffer’s guide to talking about boxing before Katie Taylor’s final fight

It’s been a very long time since we saw live professional boxing on free-to-air TV in Ireland, but RTÉ 2 will be showing Katie Taylor’s final fight against unbeaten French fighter Flora Pili at Croke Park on Saturday night.

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Katie Taylor’s last fight will be an emotional farewell for a quietly defiant pioneer

Car crash leaves Davis-Woodhall facing late decision on Budapest event

Dublin in search of new women’s football manager as joint bosses Paul Casey and Derek Murray step down

Eddie Hearn: Katie Taylor’s Croke Park ring walk will be one of boxing’s greatest moments

Katie Taylor: ‘I was walking to some boxing gyms as a young girl being sniggered at and laughed at’

Na Fianna hopeful that Donal Burke will return for latter stages of Dublin championship

Katie Taylor: ‘The most important thing is that I get my hand raised on Saturday night’

‘Pump the jab’: A bluffer’s guide to talking about boxing before Katie Taylor’s final fight