34 new champions will be crowned at the National Stadium tonight, as the 2025 National Senior Cadet Championships reaches its culmination.
Boxing begins at 6pm.
All programmes are subject to change
Affiliation for the 2025/2026 season is now open. The deadline by which all fees are due through your club’s Blocworx portal is 5pm on June 20th.
If your club requires assistance with any aspect of affiliation not outlined below, the following staff members are assisting clubs, by region
| Name | Region | Phone | |
| Paddy Barnes | Antrim | patrick.barnes@iaba.ie | 07884745612 |
| Stephen Flynn | Connacht | stephen@iaba.ie | 086 0748 867 |
| Sally Ann Kinch | Dublin | sally@iaba.ie | 085 131 1870 |
| Maeve Clarke | Leinster | maeve@iaba.ie | 086 177 1812 |
| Sophie Doolan | Munster | sophie@iaba.ie | 086 045 3904 |
| Bridget Scott | Ulster | bridget@iaba.ie | 07841470296 |
The total cost of affiliation is €735 per club, 100% of which covers your club’s insurance fees as follows:
Every year, we endeavour to ensure the best possible deal for our members. As part of membership of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, successfully affiliated clubs receive the benefit of the association’s comprehensive insurance package. Please note:
Fees due:
Midnight, June 15th: Fees must be paid, in full, through your club’s Blocworx portal. In completing affiliation for the 2024/2025 season, clubs must review:
Main contact email:
This is the email address that IABA uses to send correspondence to your club. Please check that:
I. This is the email address your club wants to use to receive all of its correspondence
II. This is a functioning email addresses, with no typos or errors
III. This email address is able to receive emails.
IV. If the club is using the personal email address of a club member, please ensure this person consents to the inclusion of their email address as the club’s main contact email
V. Please do not use email addresses linked to your employment as your main contact email address. Doing so means that sensitive information which belongs to your club is being stored on the email server used by your employer, and that information is accessible by your employer. It also means that, should you move to a different role with a new employer, your club has lost all access to all of its emails and all of this sensitive information.
VI. IABA strongly advises that clubs set up a club email address, so that, in the event that officers change, all club information is stored in the same place, and not spread across several email accounts in the event that officers change within your club.
Secretary’s Address
Please review and up-date your secretary’s home address. This is the address to which any and all postal ballots will be sent. Please ensure that a relevant Eircode or Postcode is included
Boxers
All boxers, whether they are competitive or not, must be included in your Blocworx portal so that they are insured. If you haven’t already done so, please now review the details of every boxer in your club in your portal, and add any boxers in your club who are not present. Please remove any boxers who are no longer members of your club, including boxers who may have transferred to another club.
Coaches and R&Js
A significant number of club members have qualified as coaches, Judges and Referees since clubs affiliated for the current season. Please make sure that all of your club’s new coaches are included in the coaching section of your affiliation portal, and that any members who have qualified as Judges or Referees are named in the relevant section of your portal, including their qualification.
Officers
If your officers (President/Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer, Child Protection Officer) have changed, or changed elected roles within your club since your last affiliation, please up-date those records in Blocworx. Note: No one person in a club can hold two elected offices – for example, the Secretary cannot also be the President/Chair, Treasurer or Child Protection Officer. However, an officer can hold an elected role and act as a coach or other form of volunteer, for example.
Your affiliation goes through several steps before it is approved. Once your club has completed the review and up-date of affiliation information, then:
The portal is here
Membership of the Association is granted under the provisions laid down by the constitution and rules o clubs , county boards and provincial councils who have paid their annual affiliation fee and registered with their county boards and provincial councils.
Clubs should be advised that if their affiliation actions, including all Garda/Access NI matters are not addressed during the applicable period, clubs will not be able to undertake the following:
IABA’s Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Officer, Patrick Adejayan, has commissioned a series of online Autism in Sport and Disability Inclusion workshops to be delivered by Active Disability Ireland.
These workshops are designed to provide a better understanding of Autism and Disability Inclusion focusing on the delivery of boxing.
The workshops will also help participants to recognise and understand key areas of difference as well as looking at practical strategies which will help to include people with disabilities and autism in sport sessions. The cost is €20 for IABA Members through the online platform.
Workshops will be taking place on the following dates:
Saturday May 24th, Disability Inclusion Training: 10 am to 1pm: COMPLETED
Tuesday May 27th, Disability Inclusion Training: 6 pm to 9pm: COMPLETED
Saturday May 31st, Autism in Sport Training: 10 am to 1pm
Tuesday June 3rd, Autism in Sport Training: 6pm to 9pm
Registration
Registration is available here: https://shout.com/s/Qsp1bqQ6
Places are limited. If you register for a place on this course and cannot attend, please advise IABA’s DEI Officer, Patrick Adejeyan through patrick.ad@iaba.ie so that your place can be offered to an IABA member on the waiting list.
IABA wishes to extend its condolences to Damien McKenna, his family, and all at Holy Family Boxing Club Drogheda, following the passing of his mother, Mary McKenna nee Black. May she rest in peace.
Mrs. McKenna is survived by her beloved husband Christy, children Robert, Damien, Sharon, Lorna, Jane and Christopher, son in law Tony, daughters in law Eleanor, Majella, Becky and Lorna’s partner Michael, grandchildren Andrew, Dylan, Conor, Adam, Kyle, Amy, Saoirse, Cian and James, sisters Peggy, Frances, Rosaleen, Olivia, Bernadette and Elizabeth, brothers Noel, Brendan, Oliver and Martin, brothers in law, sisters in law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
Mrs. McKenna is reposing at her home today between 3pm and 7 O’clock.
Funeral Mass will be celebrated in the Holy Family Church, Ballsgrove on Wednesday morning at 11am. Burial will take place thereafter in St. Peter’s Cemetery. The family home is private on Wednesday morning.
Those who wish to express their condolences may do so here
The draw has taken place for the 2025 National Elite Competition.
The competition is being held at World Boxing weights and will be a factor in selecting the Team Ireland team to contest the World Boxing World Championships in Liverpool, September 4th to 14th .It is a collaboration between Central Council and the High Performance Unit, with the invaluable support of Ulster Provincial Council, Antrim County Board and Belfast City Council. Central Council has expressed its gratitude to the competition’s hosts and partners: “We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Ulster Provincial Council, Antrim County Board and Belfast City Council for the invaluable support.”
The competition will be boxed at the Girdwood Community Hub, 10 Girdwood Avenue, Belfast, Antrim, BT14 GEG, June 2nd to 5th.
All programmes are subject to change
