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Neuroscientist fears Katie Taylor could be at risk of Alzheimers like Muhammad Ali (IrishCentral)

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:15:40 PDT

By: IRISHCENTRAL STAFF WRITERS

Irish Olympic champion Katie Taylor could be risking her health and her future each time she steps in the ring, a leading British neuroscientist has warned.

Justin Bieber has overtaken Lady Gaga as the most followed person on Twitter (IrishCentral)

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:01:19 PST

Justin Bieber tops TwitterThe 'Beauty and a Beat' singer has amassed over four thousand more followers than the 'Edge of Glory' hit maker, bringing his total to 33,331,355 and counting compared to Gaga's 33,327,342 on the social networking siteGaga had held the title for almost three years since overtaking Britney Spears in 2010The 'Born This Way' star was also the first Twitter user to cross the 10 million followers threshold, and broke her own record by becoming the first user to cross 20 million followers and then 30 millionGaga previously tweeted about Justin's growing Twitter following, saying: "So proud of @justinbieber and all the Beliebers! I'm only happy to see your fans growing in size, you all deserve it! Monsters support you!"Both singers have prominent fan bases on the website, with Justin's fans nicknamed 'Beliebers', and Gaga's branded 'Little Monsters' READ MORE

The 12 Irish sporting faces of 2012 - from Olympian Katie Taylor to Rory McIlroy and Paidi O Se (IrishCentral)

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:15:23 PST

Ireland's golden girl Katie TaylorIn an annual salute to those who thrilled the nation, Cathal Dervan picks his 12 sports stars of the year for 2012KATIE TAYLORThere’s a great photograph on my iPhone of an entire newspaper office jumping for joy, led by editor Mick McNiffe, as the ring announcer confirmed that Katie Taylor had won gold at the London Olympics Trust me, it takes a lot to get an entire newspaper office excited, but Taylor brought the whole country to a halt, never mind the Irish Sun office, in August Our back page headline the next day said it all – OMG READ MORE

Katie Taylor, Rory McIlroy and Brian O’Driscoll named as most popular Irish sportspeople of 2012 (IrishCentral)

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:32:45 PST

By: CATHY HAYES

Katie Taylor has stolen the hearts of Ireland according to the Pembroke Communications’ Sports Sentiment Index for 2012, while Rory McIlroy and Brian O’Driscoll follow just behind.

Olympic gold medal winner Katie Taylor set to return to ring in February (IrishCentral)

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:54:19 PST

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Olympic hero Katie Taylor will make her return to the ring when she headlines a fight night at Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre in February.

Olympic gold winner Katie Taylor wins Irish Tatler Woman of the Year (IrishCentral)

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:02:35 PST

By: KERRY O'SHEA

Ireland’s golden girl Katie Taylor was honored with the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year award this weekend in Dublin. Taylor became the pride of Ireland this summer when she brought home boxing gold during the Olympics.

The Irish Independent reports on the honor awarded to Taylor, as well as the other Irish women who were recognized at the annual event. The star-studded event was held at the Four Seasons hotel in Dublin.

Russian boxer Sofya Ochigava who lost to Katie Taylor at Olympics plotting her downfall (IrishCentral)

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:27:11 PDT

By: SEAN BROSNAN

Sofya Ochigava, the Russian boxer who lost to Katie Taylor in the 2012 Olympics finals, has declared publicly that she will beat Taylor at next year’s European Championships, which could be held in Dublin.

Irish Olympic hero Katie Taylor could have rematch with Russian Sofya Ochigava in Dublin (IrishCentral)

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:18:48 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

Katie Taylor could be up against the Russian boxer Sofya Ochigava in Dublin if the Irish Amateur Boxing Association’s (IABA ) bid for the 2013 European Elite Women’s Championships is successful.

Boxer Katie Taylor shows up Irish soccer manager Trapattoni’s silly games - Taylor great for Irish sports but Trapattoni has outlasted his welcome (IrishCentral)

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:00:28 PDT

Katie TaylorOn the front page of the Irish Independent this week was the heading ‘Trapattoni goes to Norwich’ now I must admit I’m not the biggest soccer fan in the country, but when Ireland are playing I do support the teamThat said it’s hard to be enthusiastic especially after the European championship this year There was more talk of Trapattoni going this week than the team going to the World Cup in two years’ time So when I saw this headline I thought it would make a lot of people happy READ MORE

Champion boxer Katie Taylor says “there’s is nothing better than boxing for my country and bringing home medals” (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:42:45 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

Katie Taylor has announced that she has turned down offers from the professional ranks and will remain boxing in the amateur code.

Katie Taylor to defend her boxing gold medal in 2016 Rio Olympics (IrishCentral)

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:37:13 PDT

By: DARA KELLY

Ireland’s gold medalist Katie Taylor has decided to remain amateur and defend her title in Rio in 2016.

Gold medal Olympian Katie Taylor will stay as an amateur to defend her title in Rio in 2016 (IrishCentral)

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:29:56 PDT

By: CATHAL DERVAN

Gold medal hero Katie Taylor has dropped her biggest hint yet that she wants to stay amateur and defend her title at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

Tough choice for 2012 top Irish sporting highlights and heroes - the Ryder Cup, GAA finals, UEFA Cup and the Olympics (IrishCentral)

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:32:57 PDT

European Ryder Cup teamThere was a fascinating debate in the Irish Sun offices on Monday afternoon, at that time of the day when the hard work is threatening to arrive but hasn’t got there just yetAs the dust settled on Europe’s quite incredible Ryder Cup win, the Miracle at Medinah as it is now known, talk turned to the sporting year thus farOn Sunday alone we all watched in awe as Kilkenny made it nine All-Ireland wins for their talismanic playmaker Henry ShefflinThe Cats were barely on the road back to Gowran when the drama began to unfold in Chicago and Europe had started to claw back a seemingly unassailable American lead READ MORE

Liam Neeson tells Katie Taylor: "You have made me proud to be Irish" (IrishCentral)

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:35:31 PDT

By: BUZZ BRADY

Irish Olympic hero Katie Taylor got the shock of her life last weekend when Liam Neeson called her house to congratulate the Bray native on her gold medal win.

Ireland’s Olympic gold medalist Katie Taylor talks turning professional with US and British reps (IrishCentral)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:37:00 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Ireland’s golden girl Katie Taylor has some tough decisions facing her after her historic gold medal win at the London Olympics last week.

Ireland’s Olympic athletes greeted as national heroes in homecoming parade (IrishCentral)

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:09:06 PDT

By: KERRY O’SHEA

Ireland’s Olympians for 2012, including golden girl Katie Taylor, were welcomed home like heroes on Dawson Street in Dublin on Wednesday. In a ceremony to welcome home and congratulate Ireland’s 66 athletes, 31 were on hand to witness the crowd of 5,000 in Ireland’s capital.

Today's Irish news roundup (IrishCentral)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:40:54 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

Here's our top read stories in Irish news today:

The great Olympian Katie Taylor makes us all proud (IrishCentral)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:01:34 PDT

Katie Taylor examines her Olympic gold medal on her way home to BrayIt seems entirely appropriate now that a new Irish legend was born as another one took his last bow, just a few short miles from her Wicklow homeCon Houlihan was buried just an hour or so before Katie Taylor won her Olympic boxing semifinal last Wednesday His ashes were already on their way home to Kerry when Katie struck gold 24 hours later And I know he’d have approved READ MORE

Gold medal for Katie Taylor cost Irish taxpayer close to $400,000 (IrishCentral)

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:31:34 PDT

Katie Taylor captured Ireland's only gold medalat the London Olympics{Photo thanks to Reuters}Did you see Monday's pictures from Bray, Co Wicklow? Tens of thousands of people gathered to celebrate Katie Taylor's Olympic gold in boxing There were similar scenes in other Irish hometowns of the country's successful OlympiansIreland's national television station, RTE, provided quite a bit of coverage of these events and undoubtedly will provide even more from today's national "homecoming" event in Dublin READ MORE

How "Riverdance" changed a bored American teenager’s view of Ireland -- Still working its unique magic all these years later for young and old (IrishCentral)

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:01:30 PDT

"Riverdance" still as inspirational as everIt’s been a great week to be Irish Actually, every week is great to be IrishKatie Taylor’s lifelong dream came true, and Micheal, John Joe, Paddy, and Cian, our other medalists, also got the world talking with their heroics in London They gave the whole country a lift READ MORE