Ireland’s senior women will lose coach Darren Smith after June’s Olympic qualifiers — regardless of whether they get to Rio or not.

IRELAND'S boxers have maintained their high flying positions in the first AIBA Official World rankings published for 2010 yesterday.

Seventeen Irish boxers are included in the first ever official world rankings unveiled by international boxing chiefs AIBA today.

DARREN O’NEILL has thrown down a challenge to Darren Sutherland for the middleweight place in next year’s Olympic Qualifiers.