John Joe Joyce got Ireland back to winning ways with a quarter final victory over Bulgarian light welterweight Dimitar Stilianov at the European Senior Championships in Liverpool tonight.

Irish featherweight David Oliver Joyce exited the European Senior Championships at the quarter final stage this afternoon after he was beaten 10-2 by Ukrainian Olympic champion Vasyl Lomachenko in Liverpool.

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 will miss tonight's Open Senior Competition final with Carl Frampton because of an illness.

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.

ANDY LEE was a comfortable if not impressive winner of his middleweight semi-final at the Four Nations boxing championships in Liverpool last night.