Two goals from Dara McGuinness – his first goals for Ireland – along with finishes from Thomas Lonergan and Jamie Mullins gave Paul Osam’s side a comprehensive win.

IRELAND will have six boxers in action in the Olympic qualifying tournament quarter-finals in Pescara, Italy today after an exciting second day that saw the leading contenders go through with just two disappointments.

OPPOSITION parties led

Macedonia's ethnic Albanian guerrilla leader has declared that his fighters will hand over their weapons to NATO soldiers.