Central Council has released a partial calendar for 2025.
National Secretary, Tara Robins Mari notes: “We are restrained from completing the 2025 calendar as neither the EUBC or the IBA have released their competition schedules for next year. IABA’s updated calendar will be made available to all clubs as soon as the EUBC and IBA have provided their championship dates. Please note: Dates are subject to change.”
January 2025
National Under 18’s Championships: 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th, 18th & 19th January 2025
March 2025
National Boy Girl 4 / Junior 1 & Junior 2 Championships: 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th, 15th & 16th March 2025
April 2025
National Boy / Girls 1 – 2 – 3 : 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th & 26th
May 2025
Neilstown Celtic Warrior Box Cup: 2nd, 3rd & 4th
June 2025
Monkstown International Box Cup: 19th, 20th, 21st & 22nd
IABA’s Equality, Inclusion and Diversity Officer, Patrick Adejayan, is providing 12 opportunities to club members in 2025 to engage in disability inclusion learning.
This includes:
Vision Sport Ireland Inclusion Workshops
Irish Wheel Chair Association Disability Inclusion Workshops
If you register for a place any of the above courses and cannot attend, please advise IABA’s DEI Officer, Patrick Adejayan, through patrick.ad@iaba.ie so that your place can be offered to an IABA member on the waiting list.
Registration for each course will close 2 days before the date, and those who’ve registered will be sent payment information.
A reminder of the advisory issued by the National Secretary on December 13th (here), which may require action to up-date your Blocworx portal. All coaches must be registered by your club in the club’s portal, with their qualification level.
Advisory
All Coaches must be registered via Blocworx in order to enter the Field of Play & Changing Rooms
Coaches must be Garda Vetted or in the process of getting Vetting.
Must be Qualified Level 1 Coach or Fundamental Coach (As 2nd in Corner)
Wristbands will be issued by Stephen Connelly to Coaches to allow them to enter the Field of play & Changing Rooms, coaches can collect these at the weigh in or prior to your bout.
OLNY coaches with wristbands will be allowed access to the Field of Play & Changing Rooms.
A reminder that Fundamentals qualified coaches may sit at first corner in all competitions barring National Championships.
Advance Notice – 2025 National Youth Championships
Details:
Entries Open: 20th December via Blocworx
Closing Date: 3rd January 2025
Draw: 7th January 2025
Boxing Dates: January 10th, 11th, 12th and 17th, 18th 19th
Times: To be confirmed.
A circular will be issued prior to the opening of Blocworx.
2025 Calendar
Work is ongoing on the 2025 calendar. Much of IABA’s championship calendar rests on the competition schedules at European and World level and, unfortunately, we are restrained from completing the 2025 calendar as neither the EUBC or the IBA have released their competition schedules for next year. IABA’s calendar will be made available to all clubs as soon as the EUBC and IBA have provided their championship dates.
Michael Carruth, Ireland’s first ever Olympic Boxing gold medalist, has been inducted in to the RTE Sport Hall of Fame this evening.
Michael, of Drimnagh BC, made history in Barcelona 1992 beating World Champion and Seoul Olympics silver medalist, Cuba’s Juan Hernandez Sierra on a scorline of 13-10. Michael’s father Austin and Austin, and Ireland’s Cuban coach, Nicholas Cruz, were in his corner for the incredible bout.
Michael battled his way to the final with victories over Western Samoa’s Maseline Tuifao (11-2); Germany’s Andreas Otto (35-22) and Thailand’s Akom Chenglai (11-4). Ireland’s long wait for a gold medal in boxing was over, and the 36-year gap between Ronnie Delaney’s gold medal win in the 1,500m at the 1956 Games in Melbourne had been bridged.
The scale of Michael’s achievement is difficult to capture…He brought to an end Ireland’s 36 year Olympic gold drought, and with Barcelona silver medalist, Wayne McCollugh, put Irish Olympic Boxing on the map.
Since that historic night in Barcelona, Irish boxers have won 9 Olympic medals, 3 of them gold.
The winners of those three medals, Katie Taylor (London 2012) and Kellie Harrington (Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024) were nominated for tonight’s RTE Sportsperson of the Year accolade, along with Anthony “The Apache” Cacace and 9 others, which went to three time Olympic rowing champion, Paul O’Donovan.
Reigning World & European Youth champions, 66kg Kyla Doyle (Whitechurch BC) and 92+Adam Olaniyan (Jobstown) were in the running for the RTE Sport Young Sportsperson of the year. The award was bestowned upon double Paralymic silver medalist, swimmer Róisín Ní Riain.
IABA is sharing its Safeguarding learning calendar for 2025.
In 2024, IABA delivered 14 Safeguarding 1 basic awareness courses, online and in person, providing this vital learning to 207 coaches and club administrators. IABA also delivered two Safeguarding Two courses to 28 Club Children’s Officers.
In 2025, IABA plans to deliver 12 Safeguarding One courses, 4 Safeguarding Two courses and a minimum of 1 Safeguarding Three courses.
IABA is also open, on request, to providing Safeguarding One and/or Safeguarding Two learning in person, at a county board or provincial unit level. County Boards and Provinical Units who wish to commission in-person delivery of this learning are invited to make contact with IABA National Safeguarding Manager, Stephen Flynn, via stephen@iaba.ie
Safeguarding One
All adults – coaches, committee members & non-coaching volunteers – in every club who have contact with children are required to have undertaken Safeguarding 1.
In keeping with Sport Ireland best practice in Safeguarding training, workshops will be limited to 16 participants. In keeping with norms across the sporting community, the cost for this workshop is E20.
The aim of this workshop is to help the Club Children’s Officer to carry out their role and support the implementation of best practice in the club. Participants will also receive a Club Children’s Officer Action Planning document as part of the training.
In keeping with Sport Ireland best practice in Safeguarding training, workshops will be limited to 16 participants. In keeping with norms across the sporting community, the cost for this workshop is E20.
A person appointed to the Designated Liaison Person position in a club must firstly complete the Safeguarding One Workshop and should complete the SG3 training. A club may appoint the same person to both the CCO and DLP positions however best practice advises that they are kept as separate roles.
In keeping with Sport Ireland best practice in Safeguarding training, workshops will be limited to 16 participants. In keeping with norms across the sporting community, the cost for this workshop is E20.
