IRELAND VERSUS FRANCE AT THE STADIUM

04/03/2016AIBA NewsBernard O'Neill

Ireland meet France in an Elite women’s match at the National Stadium in Dublin on Easter Saturday, March 26th.

Les Bleus are due to arrive in Ireland on March 20th for a training camp with Ireland and will meet the Girls In Green in an international at the home of Irish boxing six days later.

The ten-strong French team will comprise of one light-flyweight, two flyweights, two bantamweights, one featherweight,one lightweight, one light-welterweight and two middleweights.

The squads for both nations will be confirmed shortly, along with ticket prices for the first international on 2016.

BOY 1,2 & 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS

03/03/2016AIBA NewsBernard O'Neill

Please see below attachment for deatils of upcoming Boy 1, 2 & 3 Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium.

Weigh-ins will be held at provincial venues.

circular boy 1 2 3 2016

HEADGUARDS TO GO AT RIO 2016 (FOR MEN)

03/03/2016AIBA NewsBernard O'Neill

Michael Conlan (blue)

HEADGUARDS (FOR MEN) TO GO AT RIO 2016

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) today confirmed that men will not wear headguards at the Rio 2016 Olympics.

http://www.aiba.org/news/

Part of today’s AIBA statement read: “In the light of AIBA’s exhaustive medical research following the decision to remove headguards for men at the 2013 World Championships, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board has agreed to the removal of headguards in the men’s competition for Rio 2016 Olympic Games.”

“We are profoundly pleased that there will be no headguard for male boxers in Rio, added Dr. CK Wu, President of AIBA.

“It is something that has been expected by our boxers and by the boxing fans the world over. Since our very first conversations with athletes and medical staff on the issue we have been investigating the possibility of removing headguards and both our statistical research, and the feedback from boxers and coaches, shows us that this is the best outcome for our sport. It is undoubtedly a great achievement for AIBA to present our boxers without headguards at the next Olympic Games, the most important sporting event“ added AIBA President Dr Ching-Kuo Wu.

Rio 2016 will now mark the first time that the Olympics will be headguard-free (for men) in 32 years.

Picture – Irish R&J Michael Gallagher gives a boxer some “heads up” advice

Irish Athletic Boxing Association's photo.

GEE BEE SQUAD NAMED

03/03/2016AIBA NewsBernard O'Neill

AIBA World No. 3 ranked middleweight Michael O’Reilly has been included in a six-strong Irish squad for the Gee Bee multi-nations in Finland.

The 35th edition of the tournament begins on March 10th in Helsinki and will be Ireland’s final competitive outing before April’s European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey.

Current Irish Elite champion Stephen McKenna, Dean Walsh and Darren O’Neill are included in the Gee Bee squad, along with Sean McComb and TJ Waite.

Ireland claimed six medals at the 2015 Gee Bee, with Brendan Irvine (gold), Adam Nolan (gold), Myles Casey (silver), Connor Coyle (silver), Kurt Walk (bronze) and George Bates (bronze)
finishing in podium positions.

The European Olympic qualifiers begin in Samsun on April 7th. The top three in each of the ten male weights – the finalists and winners of box-offs between the beaten semi-finalists – qualify for Rio 2016.

The two two (finalists) in the three women’s Olympics weights – flyweight, lightweight and middleweight – qualify for the 31st Olympiad.

Team Ireland depart for Finland next Thursday.

Irish squad Gee Bee Multi-Nations Helsinki, Finland March 10/14

49kg Stephen McKenna (Old School)

52kg TJ Waite (Ormeau Road)

60kg Sean McComb (Holy Trinity)

64kg Dean Walsh (St Josephs/St Ibars)

75kg Michael O’Reilly (Portlaoise)

91kg Darren O’Neill (Paulstown)

Coaches: Zuar Antia, Noel Burke

Physio: Ursla Brooks

R&J: Jim Murrin