ESKER BC ALL FEMALE BOX CUP

05/09/2016IABA NewsBernard O'Neill

Esker All Female BoxCup 2016

Weigh in 7th October 5-9pm

Boxing 8th, 9th October

(Possible additional weigh in on 6th October also)

Entry is now open for this year’s The Esker All Female BoxCup 2016. Closing date 18th September.

Club’s can register online and get all of this year’s tournament information on Esker Boxing Club’s website.

So far 195 boxers from Ireland, Canada, England, Scotland, Poland and The Netherlands have registered all the way from juvenile to elite.

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The tournament organisers are looking for boxers/Club’s to register as early as possible. Even if a boxer has registered at a particular weight they will only be boxing at the weight taken at the tournament weigh in. DON’T DELAY REGISTER TODAY..!

Boxers will not be accepted after the closing date.

The launch night for this year’s Esker All Female BoxCup 2016 takes place in The Lord Lucan Public House, Lucan, Co Dublin on Friday 23rd September at 8pm. All media are invited as are any members of the boxing community. Special guests in attendance plus music, raffle, finger food and more..!

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Visit eskerboxingclub.com for tournament details. Email shandygriffin@Hotmail.com or contact Ed Griffin on (085) 748 0207

EUROPEAN WOMEN’S YOUTH AND JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS NOTICE

03/09/2016IABA NewsBernard O'Neill

The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) will not send a team to the 2016 European Women’s Youth and Junior Championships in Ordu,Turkey.

The tournament is scheduled to begin in the Northern Turkish province on September 18th.

Pat Ryan, President of the IABA, confirmed that following consultation with the IABA Central Council it has been decided that Ireland will not compete at the 2016 edition of the Championships.

Team Ireland were informed of the decision by the IABA President at training camp at the National Stadium in Dublin this morning.

The IABA President said that the development plan for Ireland’s top underage female boxers includes a number of upcoming international events.

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IRISH SPORT AT LAST FIVE OLYMPIC GAMES

02/09/2016IABA NewsBernard O'Neill

Ken Egan.

There was disappointment that Irish boxing did not improve on its medal haul at Rio 2016.

However, Irish boxing has still claimed more Olympic medals than all other Irish sports combined from the last five Olympiads and more Olympic medals than all other Irish sports combined since the concept of High Performance was launched fifteen years ago.

Moreover, courtesy of Katie Taylor, boxing delivered our only Olympic gold in all sports this century at London 2012.

The total count for Irish sport since Sydney 2000 is twelve medals.Seven of those have been won by boxers.

Likewise, boxing has claimed 58% of the Olympic medals won by Irish sport since Sydney 2000.

And Irish boxing has delivered 63% of our Olympic medals in all sports since the launch of the groundbreaking High Performance strategy in 2001.

Irish sport at the last Five Olympics

Sydney 2000
Athletics
Sonia O’Sullivan (Silver)

Athens 2004
No medals in any sport

Beijing 2008
Boxing
Ken Egan (Silver)
Darren Sutherland (Bronze)
Paddy Barnes (Bronze)

London 2012
Boxing
Katie Taylor (Gold)
John Joe Nevin (Silver)
Michael Conlan (Bronze)
Paddy Barnes (Bronze)
Athletics
Rob Heffernan (Bronze)
Equestrian
Cian O’Connor (Bronze)

Rio 2016
Rowing
Paul and Paul O’Donovan (Silver)
Sailing
Annalise Murphy (Silver)

Irish Olympic Medals By Sport This Century

Boxing: 1 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze
Athletics: 1 silver, 1 bronze
Rowing: 1 silver
Sailing: 1 silver
Equestrian: 1 bronze

CELTIC BOX CUP 2016

02/09/2016IABA NewsBernard O'Neill

The Celtic Box Cup begins in Dungarvan,Waterford on September 23rd next.

The tournament was founded in 2013. Since then it has grown to be Ireland’s Premier International boxing tournament.

Click here for official website and here for official FaceBook page.

CORK TO HONOUR ITS BOXING LEGENDS

01/09/2016IABA NewsBernard O'Neill

Two-time Irish Olympian and Cork Boxer of the Century (1914/2014) with his late coach Albue Murphy

Two-time Irish Olympian and Cork Boxer of the Century (1914/2014) Kieran Joyce with his late coach Albie Murphy

Bishop Lucey Park will host an historic day for Cork boxing on September 10th next.

The event, which begins at 11am, will celebrate Leeside’s outstanding contribution to the sport in Ireland amidst a carnival atmosphere.Bands will play and choirs will sing,courtesy of the Cork Butter Exchange Band and the Cork Choristers.

An invitation has been extended to the Cork public to join the boxing fraternity for the occasion,while the red carpet will be rolled out for the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA).

A warm Leeside welcomes awaits IABA President Pat Ryan, CEO Fergal Carruth, National Registrar Stephen Connolly, former IABA President Breandán Ó Conaire and Olympic champion Michael Carruth.

Gerry O’Mahony, President of the Munster Council, will also attend, along with Cork Olympians and Youth Olympians, Kieran Joyce, Paul Buttimer, Michael Roche and Christina Desmond.

The centre point of the day’s celebrations will feature the unveiling of two plaques on the Boxing Wall in Bishop Lucy Park to perpetuate the memory of the legendary, Tommy “The Prince” Hyde and Paddy “The Champ” Martin, father of Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin.

”It is fitting that Cork and Irish boxing celebrates these two greats of our sport,” said IABA President Pat Ryan.

Michael O’Brien, President of the Cork County Boxing Board, said all involved with the sport in the southern capital were eagerly looking forward to the autumnal celebrations.

See today’s Boxing Page on the Cork Evening Echo for further details.