The fabled Icelandic thunderclap might have reverberated around Lansdowne Road now and again but, in truth, this was a game which represented the calm after the storm, on the temperature scale a production rather closer to ice than the fire of Friday’s torrid affair.

IRISH Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) Elite Director Gary Keegan was full of praise for the Irish squad after they landed four gold medals at yesterday’s Vajdin Senior Multi Nations in Albania.

THE programme may have been curtailed for a variety of circumstances, but last night’s preliminary session of the multi nations boxing tournament at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork set up a mouth watering semi-final between the talented young American, Antonio Johnson, and Ireland’s Roy Sheahan.

GEORGIA and Kosova have joined the line-up for the big multi-nations boxing tournament at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork in two weeks’ time.