The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) wishes to recruit a Regional Performance Coach, with the
successful candidate to work in the Ulster High Performance Unit in Jordanstown, Belfast. Boxing is
Ireland’s most successful Olympic sport with a rich history of medal winning performances across multiple
Games. Northern Ireland (NI) has produced some of the countries most talented boxers and Ulster Boxing
contributes significantly to Team NI and Commonwealth Games success.
Three Ireland boxers vie for Paris Qualification today
iBoxClean: Anti-Doping Education & Awareness Programme
IABA is proud to support clean sport with the release of the iBoxClean programme – this is designed to raise awareness of anti-doping in our sport, and provide learning and education opportunities for boxers, coaches, club support staff and parent/guardians.
Doping is contrary to the spirit of our sport. Every boxer, coach, club administrator, bout official, elected official, clubs and unit has a responsibility to ensure Boxing is free of doping. Members are bound by this policy, and by the provisions of Rule 7.5 of IABA’s Rulebook
IABA 2024 Safeguarding Learning Calendar.
IABA is now publishing the calendar of Safeguarding One workshops for 2024. All adults – coaches, committee members and non-coaching volunteers – in every club who have contact with children are required to have undertaken Safeguarding 1.
Two courses will take place every month, March to November. Acknowledging that club members have a variety of schedules and that no one time will be best for all, a percentage of courses will take place in the evenings, a percentage during weekday lunchtimes and a percentage on Saturdays. Workshops on Safeguarding 2 and Safeguarding 3 will be made available later in 2024.
Cassidy & Gallagher win through to bid for Paris berth.
Images: Tara Robins Mari
Kelyn Cassidy and Jude Gallagher are 9 minutes, apiece, away from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games – but there was heartbreak in Busto Arsizio for Daina Moorehouse.
80kg Kelyn Cassidy, whose Round of 32 bout with Guatamala’s Wyatt Trujillo lasted less than 90 seconds before a KO, met Armenia’s Rafayel Hovhannisayn. Kelyn was the more stylish, aggressive boxer from the off, but the Armenian showed mettle throughout. The final score, though, of 5-0 to the Waterford man, was indicative of the gulf between them. The final scorecards read: 30:27; 29:28; 29:28; 30:27; 30:27. High Performance Director, Tricia Heberle, described Kelyn as a “legend”, and his “immense performance” showed “such courage.