IRISH CAPTAINS NAMED FOR EUROPEAN SCHOOLBOY/GIRL C’SHIPS

 

Team Ireland have named their captains and vice-captains for the European Schoolboy/girl Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Roy Farrelly-Colgan and Georgia Dunne-McGovern will skipper the boys and girls squads and Thomas Ward and Ava Rose Henry-Lyndon have been named vice-captains.

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The 32-strong squad finished up a five-day training camp at the Clann Naofa BC this afternoon.

Irish team managers Stephen Connolly and Jennifer O’Sullivan said that the boys and girls in green are in top shape and hailed the facilities at the Clann Naofa club and camp in the build-up to the tournament.

Team Ireland leave for Tbilisi on Thursday from Dublin Airport (4.30pm).

31 nations are expected to compete at the 17th edition of the Europeans.

Boxing begins on Sunday in the Georgian capital.

(Image – Irish squad in training camp)

 

2019 European Schoolboy/girl Championships Tbilisi, Georgia (August 2/12)

Irish squad

Male

38.5kg Kai Ducque Griffin (Drimnagh)
40kg Roy Farrelly Colgan (Avona) Captain
41.5kg Sean Tyndall (Dublin Docklands)
43kg Kyle Thomas Smith (Holy Trinity)
44.5kg Malo Kemel Fekkar Davis (Monkstown Dublin)
46kg Blaine Fitzgerald (Corinthians)
48kg Padraig Flynn Stapleton (Monkstown Dublin)
50kg James O’Reilly Thornhill (Togher)
52kg Lee McEvoy (Avona)
54kg Cole Byrne (Enniskerry)
56kg Laurence Connors (St Mary’s Dublin)
59kg Patrick Stokes (St Johns Derry)
62kg Micheal McCarthy (Urlingford)
68kg Thomas Ward (Carrickmore) Vice Captain
72kg Ryan Collins Murphy (Neilstown)
76kg Caolan Devlin (Mark Heagney)
80kg Bernard Cawley (St Davids Naas)
90kg Adam Olaniyan (Jobstown)
90-105kg Danny O’Brien (Shadows)

Female

34-36kg Carlagh Mullarney (Ballyhaunis)
38kg Caoimhe Kinsella (St Anthony’s Pats)
40kg Shakira McCrudden (Riverside)
42kg Katie O’Keeffe (Kanturk)
44kg Esther Lambe (Setanta)
46kg Carleigh Irving (Illies Golden Gloves)
48kg Nora Jackman (Paulstown)
51kg Georgia Dunne McGovern (Drimnagh) Captain
54kg Niamh Keogh (Olympic Mullingar)
57kg Alicia King (Ratoath Golden Gloves)
60kg Gabrielle Mongan (Whitechurch)
64kg Ava Rose Henry Lyndon (Glin) Vice Captain
70kg Breanna Ryan Tobin (Spartan)

Officials

IABA President: Dominic O’Rourke (St Michaels Athy)

Team Managers: Stephen Connolly (Curragh) & Jennifer O’Sullivan (Sliabh Luachra)

Coaches: Eve Carr (St Michaels Athy),Patrick Gallagher (Maynooth), James O’Neill (Clann Naofa),Martin Donovan (O.L.O.L.),Killian Walsh (Dungarvan), Paul Archbold (St Davids Naas)

Referee/Judge: Martin O’Neill (St Saviours OBA)