The Irish Elite team begin their second week of training and sparring with Italy in Assisi, Italy this morning.

India are also at the Assisi training camp.

All three nations trained together last week, with all of the Irish squad performing well.

Team Ireland will send a team to the Alexis Vastine Memorial in Nantes, France next week (see above attachment).

The Memorial begins on October 28.

(Images: Irish squad in Assisi)

IRISH SQUAD

51kg Carly McNaul (Ormeau Road)

51kg Niamh Early (Ryston)

57kg Michaela Walsh (Monkstown)

57kg Kurt Walker (Canal)

60kg Kellie Harrington (St Mary’s)

63kg George Bates (St Mary’s)

69kg Grainne Walsh (Spartacus)

69kg Christina Desmond (Fr Horgan’s BC/Garda BC)

69kg Kieran Molloy (Oughterard)

69kg Aidan Walsh (Monkstown)

75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Castlerea)

75kg Gabriel Dossen (Olympic)

81kg Emmet Brennan (Dublin Docklands)

91kg Kiril Afanasev (Smithfield)

91kg+ Antoine O’Gríofa (Celtic Eagles)

91kg+ Gytis Lisinskas (Celtic Eagles)

High-Performance Director Bernard Dunne

Coaches: Zaur Antia, John Conlan, Dmitry Dimitruk, Eoin Pluck

Please see above attachment for Youth/Junior teams home sessions information.

Dear Members,

Please be advised, the counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan have placed under Level 4 Covid-19 government restrictions. These restrictions will come into place at midnight tonight – Thursday 15/10/20. Please see link below outlining how these restrictions will apply in these counties:

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/dc29a-level-4/?referrer=http://www.gov.ie/level4/

IABA are awaiting further confirmation from Sport Ireland in relation to Level 4 restrictions and will issue this additional guidance once we have received it.

Members are reminded that official IABA Covid-19 updates are issued through the National Secretary, the Staff team, the websites – www.iaba.ie and https://ulsterboxing.com, aswell as the official IABA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BoxingIreland/.

Members are advised to use these official channels only, when accessing IABA updates in relation to Covid-19.

Please Stay Safe and keep updated of all public health measures. For more information please visit:

https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/c36c85-covid-19-coronavirus/

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/coronavirus-covid-19

On 14th October the NI Executive introduced new measures that will effect our of our Northern Ireland sports / clubs for the next 4 weeks. These measures come into effect as of 6pm on Friday 16th October 2020.

https://www.executiveoffice-ni.gov.uk/news/executive-tightens-restrictions-curb-covid-19

This is not an ideal situation for anyone in boxing but the most important factor has to be to help save lives by stopping the spread of this virus and making responsible decisions in the best interests of our membership and wider communities.

This will be reviewed by the executive in 4 weeks time on Friday 13th November 2020 where we hope our clubs are in a position to reopen. This has been a tough time for our sport but we will be back and boxing will once again lead the way as we have for so many years.

Ulster Boxing Council