Team Ireland arrived home from European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey via Dublin Airport yesterday with just a month to go before the World Women’s Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Kazakhstan.

The World Boxing Council (WBC), one of the various pro boxing sanctioning bodies, has hit out at radical proposal to allow pro boxers compete in the Olympics.

Irish Elite boxing will have two weeks less to prepare for April’s crucial Olympic qualifiers in Turkey.

AIBA World No. 3 ranked middleweight Michael O’Reilly secured his third successive Elite title at the National Stadium in Dublin last night.

Billy Walsh is a man who is used to juggling stressful responsibilities, so having three Irish boxers compete in the evening session of the opening round of the world championships in Doha today should prove no problem.

Ireland’s seven-man team get action underway in Doha today. Who are the fighting Irish? 

After two intense European Elite tournaments this summer, the final count for Irish male boxing is three gold, one silver and two bronze medals and seven places secured for October’s World Elite Men’s Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Doha, Qatar.

Olympic and World Elite bronze medallist Michael Conlan and Joe Ward booked tickets into their second European Elite finals in four years in Samokov, Bulgaria yesterday.

London 2012 bronze medallist Michael Conlan, Dean Walsh and Joe Ward guaranteed Ireland at least a hat-trick of bronze medals at the European Elite Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria yesterday.

Irish head coach Billy Walsh hailed Adam “The Guard” Nolan after he dumped No. 1 seed Radzhab Butaev out of the European Elite Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria yesterday.

Olympic bronze medallist Michael Conlan admits adjusting from five rounds to three at the European Elite Championships in Bulgaria was difficult.

Irish light-heavyweight Joe Ward eased into the last-16 of the European Elite Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria yesterday, but Dean Gardiner is out.

Irish head coach Billy Walsh is planning to keep Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan busy in quality tournaments ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games.

Michael Conlan will know next month whether he intends to continue on his current road to Rio, or whether the frustrating vagaries of amateur boxing’s scoring system finally push him into the professional game.

Katie Taylor has warned that the amateur boxing game is in danger of losing its identity and effectively becoming obsolete due to recent moves to minimise the differences between it and the professional fight game.

Ireland’s elite amateur boxers are to be catered for in a state-of-the-art training facility in the National Sports Campus.

Routes to Olympic qualification continue to multiply but that isn’t to say that getting there is any easier, writes Brendan O’Brien.

The village of Castleconnell, Co Limerick gave Andy Lee, newly-crowned WBO Middleweight champion a homecoming reception to remember last night.

There’s been little time to sit back and relax for newly appointed IABA CEO Fergal Carruth.

AIBA Professional Boxing (APB) chiefs fear losing out on five top Irish boxers — after they failed to sign up John Joe Nevin.

Plans are afoot for Katie Taylor to fight in Cork at the end of the month, as the Olympic champion faces into a year where she hopes to defend her European and World titles.

Irish Olympic gold medal winner Katie Taylor is hoping her dispute with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association is nearing a resolution.

Irish head coach Billy Walsh was “relatively happy” with yesterday’s draw for the AIBA World Men’s Elite Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Katie Taylor has revealed she is again “flirting” with the idea of turning professional — and the 2012 Olympic gold medallist may well be joined in the paid boxing ranks by Michael Conlon, who claimed a bronze in London last year.

There was double joy for Ireland in the EUBC European Men's Boxing Championships in Belarus today as both Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin and middleweight Jason Quigley were crowned champions.

There was an explosive start to last night’s Elite amateur boxing international between Ireland and France at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork, double bronze medallist Paddy Barnes leading out an Olympian one-two-three for the home side with a second-round stoppage of young light-flyweight Dylan Beccu, a stunning right hand right on the bell doing the damage.

Even among all the Olympians and multiple champions one man stood out at this year’s Elite Boxing Championships in the National Stadium — Wexford’s Adam Nolan.

A night of drama at the National Stadium last night in the 2013 Elite National Championships, the birth of a new legend, the end of another as the great light-heavyweight Kenneth Egan, seeking a record 11th title in a record 13 consecutive final appearances, was forced to give way for the third year in succession to the more powerful teenager, Joe Ward.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor marked her return to action for the first time since her gold medal triumph last August with a 28-5 win over Poland’s Karolina Graczyk at the National Stadium in Dublin tonight.

Joe Ward and John Joe Nevin both scored victories in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) in London’s York Hall last night, with Michael Conlon losing the bout of the evening to his old rival Andrew Selby.

The bond between a boxer and his coach is one forged in sweat and blood over countless training sessions.

Four crazy, blurred months have spun by since Katie Taylor claimed gold at the ExCel Arena in London and Peter Taylor, her father and coach, expressed the hope that his daughter would walk away from the ring for the last time.

Billy Walsh yesterday admitted his frustration with the length of time it has taken to secure a new deal with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association(IABA) but remains confident that pen will be put to paper inside the next fortnight.

London 2012 Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has shelved plans to turn professional.

Amir Khan has expressed disappointment at the news that Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has reversed an earlier decision to sign professional terms with Khan’s Super Fight Promotions.

Katie Taylor’s camp are examining a clause which they believe may allow the Olympic gold medallist fight up to 15 times as a professional before reverting to the amateur ranks, from where she would be able to defend her title in Rio in 2016.

John Joe Nevin became the first Irish boxer to qualify for a medal fight at London 2012 with a masterful display at the ExCel yesterday when he outpointed Kanat Abutalipov (Kazakhstan) 15-10 for a place in Sunday night’s quarter-finals.