With two medals secured in the camp, high performance coach Billy Walsh said light flyweight Paddy Barnes and flyweight Michael Conlan are champing at the bit for their quarter-final bouts.

Michael Conlan has been singled out as a possible Olympic medallist since he qualified at the world championships last year and he got his Olympic campaign off to a flyer with a very impressive and well executed 19-8 victory over Duke Mikah (Ghana) in a lively last 16 flyweight bout at the ExCel last night.

Adam Nolan has savoured it already, but this will be young Michael Conlan’s first taste of the unique Olympic atmosphere when he joins the Wexford man on tonight’s bill at the ExCel, with the Irish camp bidding to get back on the winning trail after yesterday’s first boxing loss.