Please see below attachments for updated entries – updated as of 3pm this afternoon – and Circular for National Senior Championships, formerly National Intermediate Championships.
Boxing begins Friday at Dublin’s National Stadium.
See Circular for weigh-in dates and times and start times.
Please see below attachments for updated entries and Circular for National Senior Championships, formerly National Intermediate Championships.
The deadline for entries is Wednesday, November 9th.
Boxing begins Friday at the National Stadium in Dublin.
Conor Quinn
Irish flyweight Conor Quinn will continue working on a dream when he lines out for Ireland at the AIBA World Youth Championships which begin in St Petersburg, Russia next week.
The Belfast teenager is currently with Team Ireland in Moscow training with Russia and Cuba.
On Monday next, it will be “all aboard” for the Boys in Green when they make the 649.7 km (403.7 miles) trip by rail from the Russian capital to St Petersburg.
The nine-strong Irish panel are all current National U/18 champions.
“For about a year-and-a-half I’ve been set on this. I knew if everything went to plan I would get there,” 18-year-old Quinn, a Clonard BC man who represented Ireland at the European Schoolboy and Junior Championships in 2012 and 2013, told today’s Irish News.
“Obviously it’s bigger than any competition I’ve ever boxed in but I’m going with the same attitude as for anything else. I’m going there to win the gold medal.
“If you don’t go in there believing you’re the best in the world, you won’t become the best in the world. The people I have around me, my club coaches Paddy and Peter Graham, from day one they’ve always told I’m going to be a world champion, number one. Now, I have the chance to go and shine and prove them right.”
Two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan, also a Clonard BC man and the current World and European gold medallist who has since since switched codes with Top Rank of the USA, is an inspiration to the Irish champion.
“I only live a few streets away from him (Conlan) so, even when he was boxing for [St John] Bosco, I would always have been watching him and learning different things from him, he added.
“He was the number one amateur bantamweight in the world, so you can’t get much better than that for sparring at the club when he’s home. It’s been unbelievable.
“You also learn from the way he carries himself. Mick has a bulletproof mind-set – he’s always been number one and he went and proved it. Taking things from people like Mick, it builds you up towards these competitions.”
2016 AIBA World Youth Championships St Petersburg, Russia November 17/26
Irish squad
49kg Jordan Moore (Glasnevin)
52kg Conor Quinn (Clonard)
56kg Eamer Coughlan (Riverstown)
60kg Patrick Donovan (OLOL)
64kg Gabriel Dossen (Olympic)
69kg Brett McGinty (Oakleaf)
75kg Michael Nevin (Portlaoise)
81kg Christopher O’Reilly (Bracken)
91+kg Kevin Sheehy (St Francis)
Team manager: Stephen Connolly
Coaches: Billy McClean and John Conlan
R&J: Ben McGarrigle
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association extends its deep condolences to the Mahony family following the death of Tony Mahony earlier today.
The late Mr Mahony was an active member of the Dublin County Board and served as a long-time Secretary with the Edenmore boxing club.
He was also a member of the Committee that ran the Dublin County Leagues annually and worked as team manager with Irish international squads. More recently he worked as a judge at tournaments.
May he rest in eternal peace.
Funeral Arrangements
The late Mr Mahony will be reposing in his home in 98 Cromcastle Road, Coolock Dublin 5, between 5pm and 8pm on Thursday evening.
Funeral Mass is on Friday at 12pm in St Lukes Church, Kilmore West, Coolock, Dublin.
Ireland’s European Women’s Elite Championships squad arrived home from their final training camp at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield via Dublin Airport early this morning.
The panel trained with Team GB, England and Wales in Sheffield ahead of the start of the 10th edition of the Europeans in Sofia, Bulgaria next week.
“It was a very good and very tough training camp and we got a lot of work done,“ said Cork middleweight Christina Desmond.
“I got some good rounds with some good opponents in Sheffield and hopefully that will come out for me at the Europeans,” added the Irish Youth Olympian and AIBA World Youth silver medallist.
Team Ireland flies out to Sofia next Monday. Boxing begins next Tuesday, November 15th.
Ireland has won seven medals – six gold and one bronze – at this level since the inaugural European Women’s Championships in France in 2001.
Katie Taylor, who announced last month that she was turning professional, claimed six successive titles since 2005 and Claire Grace won bronze at the 2014 Europeans in Romania.
Taylor’s departure to the pro ranks means that there will be a new name on the lightweight title for the first time in over a decade in Sofia later this month.
However, Tipperary ace Shauna O’Keeffe, the first Irish fighter to challange Taylor at the Elite Championships last year, can maintain Ireland’s grip on the 60kg belt if she tops the 60kg podium in the Bulgarian capital.
Irish Squad European Elite Women’s Championships
48kg Lauren Hogan (St.Brigids Edenderry)
51kg Donna Barr (Twin Towns)
54kg Dervla Duffy (Mulhuddart)
57kg Moira McElliggot (St Michael’s Athy)
60kg Shauna O’Keeffe (Clonmel)
64kg Kellie Harrington (Glasnevin)
69kg Grainne Walsh (Sparticus)
75kg Christina Desmond (Fr Horgans)
Team manager: Noreen Glendening
Physio: Caoimhe Gilmore
Coaches: Zaur Antia, Eddie Bolger, Dmitri Dimitruc
R&J: Sadie Duffy
Strength & Conditioning: John Cleary