The second day of boxing has taken place in the 2024 National Intermediate Championships, and 41 contests were decided.

Results

2^nd SERIES PRELIMS

1. 67kg   Shane O’Neill (Esker) W/O
2. 67kg   Peter Weatherall (St Pauls A) beat Ross Carroll (St Brigids Kildare),5-0
3. 67kg   Calvin Murray (Crumlin) beat Mikey Broadrick (Southside), 5-0
4. 67kg   Cahan Hallihan (Olympic C) beat Ruairi O’Donnell (Celtic Eagles), 5-0
5. 67kg   Richard Phiri (Celtic Eagles) beat Emmanuelle Olubunmi (St Mary’s D), 4-1
6. 67kg   Conor McCrory (Townland)  beat Chris McCabe (Santry), 5-0
7. 67kg   Nathan O’Brien (Wexford CBS) beat Patrick McTigue (Knockmore/Fox), 5-0
8. 67kg   Malo Davis (Monkstown D) beat Jason Clooney (Palmerstown)
9. 75kg   Rokas Baltukonis (Brochagh) beat Dylan Murphy (St Mary’s D), 5-0
10. 75kg   TJ King (Ballyboughal) W/O
11. 75kg   Mduduzi Ndlovu (Sean McDermott) beat Arturo Gonzalez (Crumlin), 5-0
12. 75kg   Obi Martins (Smithfield) beat Paul Mahon (Ballinacarrow), 3-2
13. 75kg   Paul Reid (Erne) beat Andrew Maloney (Golden Cobra), 4-1
14. 75kg   Feidhlim Behan (St Michaels Athy) beat Noel Grew (St Pauls A), 5-0
15. 75kg   Ola Wahab (Golden Gloves M) beat Brian Johnson (Muskerry), 5-0
16. 75kg   Christopher Taylor (Evolution) W/O

QUARTER FINALS

1. 57kg   Darragh Lee (Golden Gloves M) beat Ruben Moldovan (Santry), 5-0
2. 60kg   Leon Davis (Bracken) beat Denis Dunne (Maynooth), 5-0
3. 60kg   Lee McEvoy (Avona) beat Adam Kiely (Saviours Crystal), 5-0
4. 60kg   Erik Banus (Cookstown) beat Leon McMahon (Glengormley), 5-0
5. 60kg   Jack Douglas (Holy Family GG) beat Sean Tyndall (Enniskerry), 4-1
6. 63.5kg Killian Walsh (Trojan) W/O
7. 63.5kg Kuba Pielesz (Golden Gloves M) beat Alex McAleer (Ballyshannon), 5-0
8. 63.5kg Raymond Joyce (Clonmel) W/O
9. 63.5kg Joshua Tumama (Dublin Docklands) beat Eoin McCarron (Gilford), 5-0
10. 71kg   Cahir Gormley (Illies GG) beat Lee Hanna (Townland) RSC1
11. 71kg   Sean Larkin (Dublin Docklands) beat Eoghan Nulty (Celtic Eagles), 4-1
12. 71kg   Troy Harris (Avona) beat Cole Maguire (The Hub), 5-0
13. 71kg   Brian Morgan (Belfast Kronk) beat Sean Butler (Riverstown), RSC 2
14. 80kg   Kevin Osifo (Cherry Orchard) beat Conan Herron (Frank Gervin Clonoe), 5-0
15. 80kg   Yuba Silem (Olympic C) beat Daniel Ramsey (Emerald A), 5-0
16. 80kg   Fernandez Badejo (Maynooth) beat Brian Long (Golden Gloves M), RSC1
17. 80kg   Ryan Collins Murphy (St Monicas) W/O
18. 86kg   Rasheed Momoh (Castlebar) beat Alex McCormick (Cabra), 5-0
19. 86kg   Robbie Olusola (Celtic Eagles) beat Dan Hoolahan (Kilcullen), 5-0
20. 86kg   Anthony Taggart (Ormeau Road) W/O
21. 86kg   Sean Trant (Monkstown) beat Tadhg O’Donovan (De Courcey), RSC1
22. 92kg   Michael O’Regan (The Hub) beat Phelim Magan (Midleton), RSC1
23. 92kg   Nathan Ojo (Esker) beat Destiny Ogedengbe (Rudiarius), 5-0
24. 92kg   Garyn McAllister (Holy Family GG) beat Michael Boutenko (Muskerry), 5-0
25. 92kg   Eamonn Gilligan (Dublin Docklands) beat Izedemwen Osayerum (Bracken), RSC3

Schedule

Friday, October 4th: boxing begins at 6pm

Saturday, October 5th: boxing begins at 11am

Sunday, October 6th: boxing begins at 2.30pm

Friday, October 11th: boxing begins at 6pm

Saturday, October 12th: boxing begins at 3pm.

Weigh-ins

Boxers must weigh-in daily, on the day of boxing.

Fridays: 8am to 9am, and 12pm to 1pm

Saturdays: 8am to 9am – late weigh-ins by arrangement.

Sundays: 8am to 9am and 12pm to 1pm

National Registrar, Philip Rooney has advised that:

• Pro-wraps are permissible in this competition
• Men will not wear headguards.
• Women will wear headguards

Sunday, October 6th – Boxing begins at 2.30pm

All programmes are subject to change.

The Paris Wave: High Performance seminar came to Derry today, and was attended by club members from Derry, Sligo, Dublin, Tyrone and Donegal.

Paris Wave is designed to support boxers, coaches and clubs, and capitalise on the post-Games renewed interest in boxing created by the 10 strong Team Ireland Boxing and Kellie Harrington’s historic second Olympic gold. Paris Wave has five pillars, encompassing participation growth, safeguarding, women in sport, coach education, and boxer wellbeing.

Led by High Performance Head Coach Zauri Antia, Coach Damian Kennedy, Coach James Doyle, and Ulster High Performance Manager Aimee Shiels, today’s seminars include three key elements:

1. Road to Paris 2024 and Lessons Learned: presentation and Q&A

2. Practical coaching session: led by Head Coach Zauri Antia and the HPU coaches
3. Session/weekly planning workshop: fundamentals of designing a daily programme, building a training week and competition campaign.

12 clubs and 27 people took part in today’s event – kindly hosted by Oakleaf Boxing Club. High Performance Unit extends its thanks to the club for it’s hospitality.

Participating Clubs

Oakleaf BC, Derry

Ballymote BC, Sligo

Ballinacarrow BC, Sligo

The Ring ABC, Derry

Dungloe BC, Donegal

Derryveagh BC, Donegal

Duke’s BC, Tyrone

St. Joseph’s BC, Derry

Nutgrove BC, Dublin

Illies Golden Gloves BC, Donegal

Two Castles Olympic Boxing Club, Tyrone

Carrickmore ABC, Tyrone

This was the fourth seminar to take place in the Paris Wave series – 16 clubs, 34 coaches and 10 boxers attended the Connacht event hosted by Castlerea Boxing Club on September 17th, and 24 people from 6 boxing clubs attended the Munster event, hosted by Mitchelstown BC on September 18th. 21 clubs and 34 people participated in the seminar at the National Stadium on September 23rd.

The High Performance Unit also held coach development seminars earlier this year, in Belfast in January as part of a High Performance sparring camp, and Castlerea in April as parting of the Ireland V Ukraine dual nations and camp.

Paris Wave also includes:

Paris Wave – NextGen  This programme will support clubs, financially, in responding to growth in member numbers. IABA will provide support for the provision of 4 training sessions for new members over a 6-week period, beginning in September. All clubs offer training to multiple age groups and clubs are welcome to make Paris Wave – NextGen applications for several training groups. IABA will also be supplying programme-specific materials to each participating club.

Paris Wave – Women in Sport – WIS Conference, August 31^st, encompassing workshops on Coaching Teenage Girls, S&C for Female Combat Athletes, and Safeguarding Essentials – a practical session on managing and reporting concerns. This also marks the beginning of a 6-month long arc of WIS learning at in-person events in every province. Paris Wave – Women in Sport will culminate with a conference on International Women’s Day, 2025.

Paris Wave – Coaching: IABA is making 8 additional coaching courses available in this pillar. Four Fundamentals: Assistant Coach courses will enable 80 people to begin their coaching careers in Q4, and Four Level One: Club Coach courses will enable 80 coaches to take the next step in their coaching journeys.

Paris Wave – Safeguarding, augments IABA’s existing 2024 Safeguarding learning programme. IABA is providing 20 Safeguarding 1 workshops throughout 2024, and under Paris Wave, has added Safeguarding 2 learning in Q4. These are online events, and open to all Ulster clubs and their members.

The first night of boxing has taken place in the 2024 National Intermediate Championships, and 19 contests were decided.

Results

1^ST SERIES PRELIMS

1. 67kg   Jason Clooney (Palmerstown)       beat Jay Hara (Townland), 5-0

2^nd SERIES PRELIMS

• 60kg   Jack Douglas (Holy Family GG) beat Patrick Akinjopo (St Pauls W),KO2
• 63.5kg Joshua Tumama (Dublin Docklands) beat Sean Kelleher (Golden Cobra), 5-0
• 63.5kg Connor Leneghan (St Pauls A) beat Cody O’Reilly (Portlaoise), 5-0
• 63.5kg Killian Walsh (Trojan) beat  John Gilligan (Ballinacarrow), 3-2
• 71kg  Lee Hanna (Townland) beat Cormac Donoghue (St Michaels Athy), 5-0
• 71kg   Cahir Gormley (Illies GG) beat Daniel Magliozzi (Golden Cobra), 5-0
• 71kg   Sean Larkin (Dublin Docklands) beat Tony Aptsiauri (Monkstown), RSC2
• 71kg  Eoghan Nulty (Celtic Eagles) beat Killian Carr (St Conleths), 3-2
• 71kg   Cole Maguire (The Hub) beat Conor Dargan (Whitechurch), 4-1
• 71kg  Tony Harris (Avona) beat Eoin O’Neill (Kilcullen), 5-0
• 71kg  Darren Shanahan (Muskerry) beat Brian Morgan (Belfast Kronk), AB1
• 71kg   Sean Butler (Riverstown) beat George Goff (Golden Gloves M), 4-1
• 75kg   Jake Walker (Corpus Christi A) beat Karim Taguercifi (Crumlin), 4-1
• 80kg   Yuba Silem (Olympic C) beat Sam Tsui (Star of the Sea), 5-0
• 80kg   Fernandez Badejo (Maynooth) W/O
• 80kg   Brian Long (Golden Gloves M) beat Eghosa Igharo (Clann Naofa) RSC2
• 80kg   Ryan Collins Murphy (St Monicas) beat Patrick Whelan (St Mary’s NR), RSC3
• 80kg   Niall Doherty (St Mary’s NR) beat Peter Clarke (Errigal), 5-0

Schedule

Friday, October 4th: boxing begins at 6pm

Saturday, October 5th: boxing begins at 11am

Sunday, October 6th: boxing begins at 2.30pm

Friday, October 11th: boxing begins at 6pm

Saturday, October 12th: boxing begins at 3pm.

Weigh-ins

Boxers must weigh-in daily, on the day of boxing.

Fridays: 8am to 9am, and 12pm to 1pm

Saturdays: 8am to 9am – late weigh-ins by arrangement.

Sundays: 8am to 9am and 12pm to 1pm

National Registrar, Philip Rooney has advised that:

• Pro-wraps are permissible in this competition
• Men will not wear headguards.
• Women will wear headguards

Saturday, October 5th – Boxing begins at 11am.

All programmes are subject to change.

Nominations are being accepted for election to Central Council, and are being accepted to nominations@iaba.ie until 5pm on Monday, October 14^th. Nominations must be sent only to nominations@iaba.ie

As notified on September 21^st, the AGM of the IABA will take place on Sunday, November 24^th. In accordance with the requirements of Rule 14.2 of the IABA Rulebook, an Election Policy has been adopted by the Board of Directors and is attached. This Election Policy includes:

1. The policy; pages 1-13
2. Candidate Declaration; page 14
3. Nomination Papers; page 16
4. President Application for Nomination form; page 17-26

For the Information of Candidates

• All intending candidates must return the Candidate Declaration Form to nominations@iaba.ie by 5pm on Monday, October 14^th
• All candidates intending to run for the Office of President must return the Candidate Declaration Form and the President Application for Nomination form to nominations@iaba.ie by 5pm on Monday, October 14^th

For the information of Nominating Units

Please complete the Nomination Papers and return to nominations@iaba.ie by 5pm on Monday, October 14^th

For ease of candidate and nominator access, a PDF version of the Election policy is attached, and a Word document version of the policy is attached.

Voting: Ballot papers will be sent to the postal address stated for the Club Secretary in the club’s Blocworx portal. The ballot papers will be accompanied by voting arrangements. Clubs are advised to review the postal address stated for their Club Secretary to ensure it is up to date. The address stated in the club’s Blocworx portal as at 5pm on Monday, October 14^th is the address to which ballots will be posted.

Registration will be required to attend the AGM:

1. Eligibility: All clubs successfully affiliated for the 2024/2025 season
2. Attendees: Eligible clubs may nominate any two adult members to attend as delegates – one to be a voting delegate, one to be a non-voting delegate. Delegates nominated by clubs must verified members – this means they must be included in the club’s affiliation application, through Blocworx, for the 2024/2025 season as members and be over the age of 18. *Please note, delegates will be required to present photographic identification (passport, drivers’ licence, etc) on the day of the EGM.  

Documentation connected with the AGM, including the Agenda and the Annual Report and Financial Statements will issue in the coming weeks.

IABA’s Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Officer, Patrick Adejayan, has commissioned and is funding online Disability Inclusion Training and Autism in Sport training, delivered by Active Disability Ireland. Both courses take place on Zoom, and registration is required.

Register for Disability Inclusion Training on Tuesday, November 5^th here: https://shout.com/s/MpYedh6g

This Disability Inclusion Training workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, skills and ideas on how to adapt and modify your sport, physical activity or physical education sessions to make them more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. Attendees will be engaged through interactive group work, theory content and will be introduced to adaptation tools which will be applied to a variety of games and activities on how to make these inclusive for all ability groups. On completion of the workshop all participants will receive an Active Disability Ireland Certificate of Attendance endorsed by Sport Ireland, a resource manual and a games booklet full of fun inclusive activities.

Register for Autism in Sport Training on Wednesday, November 6^th, here: https://shout.com/s/q7SqloYH

This Autism in Sport workshop will provide attendees with an understanding of Autism focusing on the delivery of sport. It will help participants to recognise and understand key areas of difference as well as looking at practical strategies which will help to include people with autism in sport sessions.

Places are limited. If you register for a place on this course 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.