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.

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.

TWELVE months ago this week Darren O’Neill’s Olympic dream was shattered when he fractured his wrist while training for the national senior boxing championships.

WITH the national championships starting tomorrow night week at the National Stadium, boxing fans are looking forward to the seemingly inevitable middleweight battle between champion Darren Sutherland and challenger Darren O’Neill.

DARREN SUTHERLAND became something of a celebrity when he fought his way to the world amateur boxing championship quarter-finals in China just over a month ago.

MICHAEL FOUHY faces the biggest assignment of his boxing career when he represents Ireland at heavyweight at the multi-nations tournament in Ballybunion this week.

KENNETH EGAN (Neilstown) will face a Hungarian opponent tomorrow afternoon in his quest for a medal at the European Union Boxing Championships in Arborea, Sardinia.

COMMONWEALTH Games gold medallist Jason Douglas heads an entry of five for the heavyweight honours at the multi-nations boxing tournament which gets underway at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork tomorrow evening.

LIMERICK’S Andy Lee is on course to become the star of this season’s national senior boxing championships with just Eamonn O’Kane blocking his route to the 75kg (middleweight) title at the National Stadium tomorrow night.

Delivery services throughout most of Northern Ireland were returning to normal today after postal workers decided to call off their stoppage.