Ireland meet France in a Women’s Elite international at the National Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.

Les Bleus have included three National champions in their squad.

Ireland have included two Ulster flyweights, current Irish Elite champion Michaela Walsh and Ceire Smith, in a  seven-strong team.

Irish Youth Olympian Christina Desmond, a World Youth silver medallist, boxes at middleweight along with Grainne Walsh.

Irish Elite champions Kelly Harrington, Dervla Duffy and Moira McElligot also line out for the Girls in Green.

Harrington is in against Amina Zidani, the present French Elite light-welter champion.

Zidani, Saray Ovrahmoune and Erika Guerrier, who face Michaela Walsh and Grainne Walsh Saturday, claimed Elite belts at the French Championships in Aubervilliers, Paris last month.

France have been training with Ireland and Lithuania, who are also in  training camp with Ireland at the home of Irish boxing, for the last number of days.

Boxing begins at 7.30pm on Saturday night.

Admission is from €5.

Ireland v France  National Stadium Dublin March 26th (7.30pm)

51kg Michaela Walsh (Holy Family) v Saray Ovrahmoune (France)

51kg Ceire Smith (Cavan) v Wassila Lkhadiri (France)

54kg Dervla Duffy (Ryston) v Mona Mestiaen (France)

60kg Moira McElligot (St Michael’s Athy) v Sofia Nabet (France)

64kg Kelly Harrington (Glasnevin) v Amina Zidani (France)

75kg Christina Desmond  (Fr Horgan’s) v Maily Nicar (France)

75kg Grainne Walsh (Sparticus) v  Erika Guerrier (France)

French 2016 National Elite Women’s Finals Results, February 13th Paris

48kg Cassandra Crevecoeur beat Nassia Mekkid 3:0

51kg Sara Ourahmoune  beat Vassilia Lkhadiri 3:0

54kg Delphine Mancini beat Mona Mestiaen 3:0

57kg Stelly Ferge beat  Julie Le Galliard 2:1

60kg Estelle Mosselly beat Flora Pili  3:0

64kg Amina Zidani  beat Wendy Couvercelle 2:1

69kg Marie-Helene Meron beat Malika Gonthier Silva 2:1

75kg Erika Guerrier beat Davina Michel 3-0

 

Fans are invited to the National Stadium tomorrow to support Ireland’s top Elites and Olympians versus Lithuania in a test match in Dublin.

Admission is free. Boxing begins at 4pm on Wednesday.

Ireland and Lithuania are in training camp at the home of Irish boxing. The camp runs until  Thursday.

Current European Elite welter champion Eimantas Stanionis and current European Elite bronze medallist Evaldas Petrauskas are included in a strong Lithuanian panel.

 

 

Both nations are preparing for next month’s European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey. The Irish squad for the qualifiers leave for a final training camp in Assisi, Italy next Monday.

Rio 2016 Olympians Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, Steven Donnelly and Joe Ward are included on the Irish team for the Assisi training camp.

The Rio 2016 quartet will return home from Assisi on April 7 and Ireland’s nine-strong squad travel straight from Italy to Samsun ahead of a key tournament for Irish boxing. Boxing begins on April 9 in Turkey.

The Irish squad for Samsun will be ratified in due course.

Ireland and Lithuania squads training camp National Stadium Dublin

 

 

Ireland

1. Stephen McKenna
2. Paddy Barnes
3. Brendan Irvine
4. TJ Waite
5. Michael Conlan
6. Kurt Walker
7. David Oliver Joyce
8. Sean McComb
9. Tiernan Bradley
10. Dean Walsh
11. Wayne Kelly
12. Steven Donnelly
13. Adam Nolan
14. Martin Stokes
15. Michael O’Reilly
16. Conor Wallace
17. Joe Ward
18. JP Delaney
19. Darren O’Neill
20. Kirill Afanasev
21. Dean Gardiner
22. Thomas Carty

 

Lithuania

1. Evaldas Petrauskas,
2. Eimantas Stanionis,
3. Mantas Valavicius
4. Edgaras Skurdelis,
5. Todas Tamasauskas,
6. Tomas Piorun
7. Vladimiras Bajevas (coach)
8. Vidas Bruzas (coach)
9. Arunas Cialka (physio)
10. Valeriu Dadeo

The Irish Athletic Boxing Association extends its deepest sympathies to the Egan family following the death of Sean Egan.

Sean Egan, a member of the Rathkeale boxing club in Limerick, tragically died on Saturday following a traffic accident.

Deeply regretted by his heartbroken parents Dave and Helen, sisters Roisín and Sinéad, brother Ciarán, grandparents Anne & Mikey Egan and Pat & Kathleen Fleming, aunts, uncles, grandaunts, granduncles, cousins, classmates in LIT, former classmates from Desmond College and Templeglantine N.S., a large circle of friends and the boxing fraternity.

May he rest in eternal peace.

 

 

Funeral arrangements.

Reposing at his home on Tuesday from 4.00 p.m. until 8.00 p.m. Removal on Wednesday to the Church of the Most Holy Trinity Templeglantine to arrive for 11.00 a.m. Requiem Mass. Burial afterwards in Reilig na Tríonóide, Templeglantine.

 

 

The IATBA 2016 Championships concluded at the National Boxing Stadium on Saturday March 19 with 49 new Irish Student Champions.

 

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