It has been a largely disappointing day for Team Ireland at the London Olympics today.

Kilkenny boxer Darren O'Neill has admitted that he was slow to come out of the blocks in his round of 16 defeat to German boxer Stefan Hartel.

Darren O'Neill has lost his middleweight bout in the last-16 of the Olympics.

Sanita Puspure is first of the Irish competitors out today in the women's C semi finals in the sculls at the London Olympics.

Ireland pair John Joe Nevin and Darren O'Neill hailed team-mate Paddy Barnes' opening ceremony stunt after safely negotiating their respective first round bouts in the Olympic boxing competition at ExCel today.

Irish boxer Darren O'Neill has beaten Nigerian Muideen Akanji 15 -6 in the last 32 of the middleweight division in today's Olympics bout.

John Joe Nevin is through to the last 16 in the bantamweight division at the Olympic Games in London. The fifth seed wasn't troubled in his first round fight, beating Denmark’s Dennis Ceylan 21-6.

Four-time world champion Katie Taylor has been placed in the tougher half of the draw in the women's lightweight category at the London Olympics.

Joe Ward has retained his Irish light-heavyweight title after an awesome destruction of Kenneth Egan at the National Stadium.

Derry boxer Conor Coyle has withdrawn from the 75kg final at the Elite National Seniors Boxing Championships due to injury.

John Joe Nevin has guaranteed himself a bronze medal at the very least with a win in his quarter-final at the World boxing championships in Baku.

Three Irish boxers have qualifed for next year's London Olympics.

Bantamweight John Joe Nevin and Kilkenny middleweight Darren O'Neill have earned spots at the London Olympics next summer with wins in their last 16 bouts at the World championship in Baku.

It has been a disappointing start for the Irish at the World Championships in Azerbaijan.

It has been another successful day for the Irish boxers at the World Boxing Championships in Azerbaijan.

One of Ireland's boxers has won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Turkey.

Ireland's John Joe Nevin has lost 13-12 to his Russian opponent in the quarter-finals of the European Championships in Turkey.

Former Kildare footballer Niall Browne will make his Munster SFC debut when he lines out for Clare against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

Ireland will be taking home one gold, one silver and three bronze medals from the 2010 European Senior Championships at the Ice Palace in Moscow.

Paddy Barnes and Darren O'Neill booked their tickets into their respective finals at the European Senior Championships in Moscow today.

Ireland's boxers claimed three bronze medals - at least - from a day of quarter-final action at the 2010 European Senior Championships in Moscow.

Ireland hit the ground running in Moscow today, getting their European Senior Championships campaign off to a flying start with five wins out of five at the Ice Palace.

The IABA have announced a 12-strong squad for the upcoming Prime Ministry Tournament in Ankara, Turkey.

Katie Taylor relinquished her proud unbeaten run stretching back to May 13, 2007 after she was beaten by former World champion Sofya Ochigava of Russia in her lightweight semi final at the Usti na Labem Gran Prix in the Czech Republic yesterday.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed an 11-man squad for next month's 2009 AIBA World Senior Championships in Milan, Italy.

The Irish senior boxing team were celebrating a treble today after David Oliver Joyce, Darren O'Neill and Con Sheehan claimed three golds at the 2009 European Union Championships in Odense, Denmark, today.

Ireland beat the USA 9-3 at the National Stadium in Dublin last night to take a commanding advantage into Sundays second meeting between the nations at the Arch Centre in Athy.

KENNETH EGAN caused a major sensation in Irish boxing long before last night’s big home international against the USA got underway when the Olympic silver medallist failed to show up for the weigh-in.

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.

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.

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

Katie Taylor, the reigning World and European lightweight champion, progressed to the quarter finals of the Ahmet Comert Cup following a convincing win over reigning European light welterweight champion Lucie Bertaud in Turkey this afternoon.

Ireland beat Poland 5-3 in Donegal last night to take a two-bout lead into the second leg of the senior international series on Friday evening.

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.

Ken Egan will contest the light heavyweight final in the Irish Amateur Boxing Championships tonight.

World lightweight champion Katie Taylor could be in the ring in Vejle Denmark this evening to begin her defence of the European 60Kg title she has won for the last two years in a row.

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.

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.

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

Irish middleweight Darren O'Neill and super heavyweight Cathal McMonagle are through to the quarter finals of the Ustinad Laben Senior Multi Nations following impressive victories in the Czech Republic tonight (May 16th).

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.

Nine Irish boxers are in top 20 positions in the official European men's and women's rankings for December.

Irish boxer Roy Sheehan has beaten Michele Cirillo of Italy (37 to 19) in his opening bout of the Welterweight division of the European Senior Boxing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria today.