HEAD coach Billy Walsh was thanking his lucky stars the Irish team were amongst the first to arrive in Moscow for the European Senior Boxing championships, starting on Saturday.

The Irish squad arrived in Moscow this morning ahead of the 2010 European Senior Championships which begins Friday in the Russian capital.

BERNARD DUNNE will defend his European super bantamweight title against Yerson Jailauov from Kazakhstan at the Point Depot on March 25 in the first of four planned fights this year.

Denise Lewis today admitted that spending too much time celebrating her Olympic gold medal played a part in her being forced to pull out of the world championships in Canada.