Cavan bantamweight John Joe Nevin got Ireland back to winning ways at the AIBA World Championships with a classy 19-4 preliminary round victory over Ramir Najafou of Azerbaijan in Milan this morning.

Ken Egan has beaten Darren Cruise in the third round of their light heavyweight final at the IABAs Open Senior Competition at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight.

Katie Taylor beat China's Dong Cheng 10-2 at the Sports Palace in St Petersburg, Russia tonight to advance to the quarter finals of an International Box-Off.

Katie Taylor was crowned European Union champion for the second year running following an 8-1 win over Bulgarian lightweight Denitza Eliseevan in Pazardjik, Bulgaria this afternoon.

The 2008 National Senior Championships will begin on Tuesday, January 8 and run over four days before concluding on Friday, January 11, at the National Stadium in Dublin.

John Joe Joyce bowed out of the AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers at the University of Illinois in Chicago after he lost his preliminary round light welterweight clash to Hungary's Gyula Kate in the early hours of this morning.