Boxing

The Irish team to take part in next month's World Boxing Championship in Milan has been announced.

Katie Taylor dream of competing at the London Olympics in 2012 may have implications for Beijing bronze medallist Paddy Barnes. As women’s boxing was included in the next Olympic Games in three weight categories yesterday, it was also announced that the men’s boxing schedule will have to be trimmed by one weight division.

Ireland came out on top in an international round-robin tournament at the National Stadium in Dublin.
The Irish team won 19 of their 21 bouts against Finland, GB, Holland, Sweden and Uzbekistan at the weekend to finish top of the table.

The IABA will be hoping to maintain a proud record when the opening bell for the 2009 European Union Championships tolls in Odense, Denmark next Monday evening.

One of Ireland's finest heavyweight boxers, and a 1948 London Olympian, Geariod O Colmain has died in hospital, aged 84.

Ken Egan, Darren Sutherland and John Joe Joyce completed an incredible week for Irish amateur boxing after winning their qualifers in Athens, Greece.

5 Irish boxers have now qualified for Beijing. Paddy Barnes was first to qualify at the World Championships last year.

Two other boxers are one fight away from the Olympics. John Joe Joyce from Athy takes on Ionut Gheorge of Romania at light welterweight, while team captain Ken Egan fights Ramazan Magamedau from Belarus at light heavyweight.

Irish middleweight Darren Sutherland became the sixth Irish boxer to make it through to the quarter-finals of the Olympics qualifiers following a 25-16 over Ramis Baylarov from Azerbaijan in Italy last night.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association named a full squad of 11 boxers to compete in next month's World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association took home one gold, four silver and one bronze medal from the GeeBee Senior Multi Nations in Finland following a day of mixed fortunes for the five Irish boxers in action in the(April 15th) finals in Helsinki.

Congratulating Katie on her remarkable victory, Olympic Council President Pat Hickey said that she had brought great honour to Ireland and to the sport of boxing.