ROSS HICKEY and Eamon O’Kane both took bronze medals from the European championships in Liverpool last night as Ireland repeated the haul from the Europeans in Madrid in 1971 when flyweight, Neil McLaughlin, bantamweight Mick Dowling and featherweight Brendan McCarthy all took medals.

John Joe Joyce cruised into the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a comfortable 20-3 win over Scottish light welterweight John Tain at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool this afternoon.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE set up what promises to be an enthralling quarter-final with the Olympic champion, Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine), with a resounding 12-3 victory over Englishman Joe Murray at the European Senior Boxing Championships in Liverpool yesterday.

Reigning Irish featherweight champion David Oliver Joyce joined Ryan Lindberg and Ross Hickey in the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a convincing 16-3 win over British 2008 Olympian Joe Murray at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool this afternoon.

BILLY WALSH will be looking for more of the same from Ryan Lindberg and Willie McLoughlin at the European Championships in Liverpool today when Ireland will have four boxers fighting for places in the quarter-finals.

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE claimed the featherweight berth on the Irish team for next month’s European Boxing Championships when outpointing Carl Frampton in a box-off at the Central Council Tournament in the National Stadium at the weekend.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St Michael’s, Athy) stamped his name on the list for next month’s European championships with an emphatic 20-4 victory over the plucky Ballymena light welterweight, Stephen Donnelly (All Saints), in the finals of the open tournament held to help select the team for Liverpool.

Reigning Irish featherweight champion David Oliver Joyce will miss tonight's Open Senior Competition final with Carl Frampton because of an illness.

Five Irish boxers will be involved in quarter-finals bouts at the final Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece today.

LAST year Kenneth Egan was one of the favourites to qualify for the Beijing Olympics but he lost an excellent opportunity at the world championships in Chicago and missed out on another chance in Pescara six weeks ago but he is back on track again, writes Brendan Mooney.

Ireland's Conor Ahern has booked a place in the quarter-finals of the Olympic qualification tournament in Athens tomorrow.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Conor Ahern got Ireland’shopes off to a flying start at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens yesterday but while Sutherland will be back in action today, Ahern faces an anxious wait to see if he can box tomorrow after sustaining a cut eye in his flyweight contest.

Irish flyweight Conor Ahern and middleweight Darren Sutherland both won their preliminary round bouts at the final AIBA Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece today.

DARREN SUTHERLAND (St Saviours OBA) strengthened his Olympic qualification hopes with a 15-8 victory over arch-rival, Darren O’Neill (Paulstown) in an action-packed middleweight final at the National Stadium on Saturday.

Darren Sutherland and Darren O'Neill will meet in a repeat of last January's Irish senior middleweight final tonight after Sutherland advanced from last night's semi final box-off at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Irish middleweight Darren Sutherland will meet England's James Degale in the quarter-finals of the Olympic qualifiers tonight after beating Ramis Baylarov from Azerbaijan in Italy last night.

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.

The Irish squad will train with their Italian hosts, France, Greece and Lithuania today at their Santa Maria training base in Perugia, Italy.

Irish head coach Billy Walsh believes that this weeks sparring and training camp with England and France at the National Stadium in Dublin can only augur well for the Olympic qualifiers in Pescara, Italy later this month.

DARREN SUTHERLAND and Darren O’Neill took different routes but each had decisive semi-final victories to qualify for tonight’s middleweight showdown at the finals of the national championships at the National Stadium.

KENNETH EGAN and surprise packets Paddy Barnes and Eric Donovan provide an interesting blend of youth and experience in what will be all-out war for places in the top eight at the World Boxing Championships in Chicago.

Ireland's Paddy Barnes is through to the last 32 at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago.

ERIC DONOVAN kept Irish spirits on a high with an emphatic if not sensational 33-17 victory over a highly-rated Hungarian lightweight, Miklos Varga, at the World Boxing Championships in Chicago last night.

KENNETH EGAN and Roy Sheahan take their first steps towards qualification for the 2008 Olympics at the world boxing championships in Chicago today.

WITH John Joe Joyce set to get the show on the road in the early hours of today Irish time, the Irish boxing team were last night perusing what High Performance Director, Gary Keegan, described as a ‘fair’ draw for the world championships in Chicago.

Middleweight Darren Sutherland will take no further part in sparring sessions at the Irish squad's training camp in France after sustaining a facial injury last night.

THE IRISH boxing team have taken their preparations for the world championships to a new level at a training camp in France.

IRELAND’S medal winners at last months European Union Boxing Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin have all moved up places in the world rankings just released for June.

Irish boxers claimed one silver and three bronze medals at the Maripol senior international tournament which concluded in the Ukraine today.

Irelands quest for a medal at the European Junior Boxing Championships ended in disappointment yesterday following quarter-final defeats for John Joe Nevin and Mark McCullagh in Sombor Serbia.

Featherweight Carl Frampton created Irish boxing history tonight following a clinical victory over Latvian Denis Zabins in the quarter final of the European Union Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin.

CATHAL McMONAGLE was rewarded for perseverance last night when the referee stopped his super heavyweight contest with 30 seconds remaining to send him through to tomorrow’s quarter final stages of the European Union boxing championships at the National Stadium.

ERIC DONOVAN was handed the featherweight berth on the Irish team for the European Union Boxing Championships when his clubmate, John Joe Joyce, moved up to welterweight, and now he wants to create the sensation of the tournament when he meets the three-time champion, Domenico Valentino of Italy, in his quarter-final bout at the National Stadium tomorrow.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St. Michael’s, Athy) faces a showdown with reigning light welterweight champion Aodh Carlyle at the National Stadium tomorrow with a place on the Irish team for the EU boxing championships the prize.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) have arranged a specially convened bout to decide the one remaining place on the Irish team for the European Union Championships which will take place at the National Stadium in Dublin next month. (June 17th to 25th).

Irish middleweight Darren O'Neill is up two places to sixth in the ABA Amateur Boxing European Rankings just released for May 2007.

Reigning World and European lightweight champion Katie Taylor racked up her second win in the space of 24 hours following an emphatic victory over Kurluk Valeviya in the quarter finals of the Ahmet Comet Cup in Turkey last night.

THE powerful Russians will visit Ireland a the end of the month to box two internationals, one at the National Stadium on April 27 and the other at Athlone IT on April 29.

Ireland will take on Russia in two internationals at the end of this month the Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed.

Nine Irish boxers are included on the Men's and Women's World and European rankings just released for March 2007 on the ABA Amateur Boxing website.

NATIONAL senior lightweight champion, John Joe Joyce, is moving up to the light-welterweight division and will miss the GeeBee multi-nations boxing tournament in Finland next week.

HIGH Performance Director, Gary Keegan, will be awaiting the results of a meeting in Thailand this week when boxing’s world governing body, AIBA, could decide a new venue for the World Championships, which take place later this year.

THE Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) have named an eight man squad of national senior champions for the Geebee Multi Nations in Finland next month.

DARREN SUTHERLAND put the finishing touches to a memorable week for the Irish boxers at the multi-nations tournament in Zagreb, Croatia, by stopping local hope Pol Urgoc Sanjin in the third round of their middleweight final to claim the gold medal.