Ireland, with one gold, two silver and one bronze, courtesy of Hughie Myers, finished in fourth spot in the medals table behind Italy, Moldova and Bulgaria, and in third spot in the rankings table.
Ireland’s top-four finishes were achieved minus AIBA World No 2 and No 3 Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes, who competed in the recent Commonwealth Games, and AIBA World No 9 Joe Ward who is out injured at the moment.
David Oliver Joyce claimed his third successive EU gold medal at the championships on a unanimous decision over Georgia’s Otar Eranosyan.
Joyce won gold at the last EU Championships in 2009 and 2008. Saturday’s win saw him match Ken Egan’s record of three gold medals at this level. Katie Taylor has won five EU women’s gold medals.
But while Joyce was celebrating an historic two-weight hat-trick, London 2012 Olympian Darren O’Neill and Michael O’Reilly dropped split decisions in the light-heavy and middleweight finals.
O’Neill – who was beaten by O’Reilly on a split decision in February’s Irish Elite middleweight final – lost to Valentino Manfredonia.
The Kilkenny southpaw shaded the first round and ran away the second, two flashing left-hooks forcing Manfredonia into standing counts.
But the Italian dominated the third round and two of the judges – despite the two standing counts – leaned in his favour (29-28,29-28,27-29) after the final bell.
Two judges also favoured France’s Christian Ossomo at the expense of O’Reilly in a very close middleweight final (29-28,29-28,28-29).
