Ahmed Clarke, University of Albany, scores against Long Island University during the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic

Selection of images from Katie Taylor's Olympic boxing campaign. London2012 Olympic Games.

Linfield’s Jamie Mulgrew in heavy rain during a Danske Bank Premiership game at Windsor Park

Australia women celebrate after they won the final of the Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay on Day One of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

2 schools battle the elements as well as each other to make the next round of the Schools' Cup Rugby Tournament.

24 hours in Northern Ireland during 'The Twelfth' which is the most important date in the Orange Order calendar and marks the anniversary of King William's Battle of the Boyne victory. Bonfires are set on fire the night before Orangemen and women parade across the Province. Police prevent the Belfast parade passing the Catholic Ardoyne which is a known flashpoint and are then caught between Loyalist and Nationalist demonstrators. This year a young woman was run over and seriously injured when a driver drove his car through Nationalist protesters, but most of the parades passed off peacefully.

Greyhounds chase the hare during the Irish Cup at Limerick Racecourse for the first prize of £67,000 and the Irish Cup Title .

A rioter takes a break during riot with PSNI after Orangemen pass the Ardoyne on their return parade from the main demonstration in Belfast.

Chinese Olympic training camp in Salto Gymnastics Club. The teams will base themselves in Lisburn before moving to London to compete in the Olympic Games.

British Bulldog Alfie takes a young boy's burger out of his hands during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee street party at Tigers Bay, Belfast.

Huang Qiushuang at the Chinese Olympic training camp in Lisburn where they will base themselves before going to London to compete in the Olympic Games.

Young boys climb one of the largest bonfire on the Loyalist Shankill Road in readiness for the start the annual 'Twelfth of July' celebrations.

A little dog gets anxious as he watches his owner going for his daily dip at the Pollock Holes, Kilkee, Co Clare.

A selection of photos from different sports at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics including : 1. Opening ceremony 2. Ireland's PJ Barron competes in the Men's !5km Cross-Country race 3. Jenna McCorkell pictured during her Olympic Figure Skating 4. Irish womens bobsliegh team 5. USA's Gregory Bretz pictured in the Men's Halfpipe 6. Competitor in the ski-jumping Large Hill 7. Short track speed skating 8. Japan's Shigeyuki Dejima during the Mens 5000 meters speed skating

Elderly ladies get their hair done at a hairdressers on Belfast's Sandy Row which is seeing alot of shops close due to the recession

Fluminense, captain of the Brazilian Team, celebrates winning the Milk Cup.

A dejected player whose team was knocked out of the Schools' Cup Rugby tournament.

A Catholic child on her way to Holy Cross Primary School, north Belfast, clings to her mother as they run the gauntlet of loyalist demonstrators in June 2001

Belfast based Boxer Bernard Dunne during a training session in his gym.