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.

THE Olympic medallists may be missing from the line-up but Ireland’s boxers maintained their run of good form at the European boxing championships in Liverpool with three more big wins yesterday.

GARY KEEGAN who, as Director of High Performance, has masterminded Ireland’s current Olympic campaign is predicting wins for light heavyweight Kenneth Egan and light welterweight John Joe Joyce at the Worker’s Gymnasium tomorrow.

Ireland's John Joe Nevin has beaten African champion, Abdelhalim Ourradi of Algeria, in his heat of the Bantamweight 54kg competition.

NOT so long ago John Joe Nevin was being groomed as a London 2012 prospect, but today he will climb into the Olympic boxing ring at the Workers Gymnasium as a big medal prospect for Beijing.

Light welterweight John Joe Joyce produced arguably his best ever performance to march into the last 16 of the Olympic Games following a 9-5 victory over Gyula Kate of Hungary this morning.

Darren Sutherland and Paddy Barnes both received byes into the last sixteen of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing at this morning's draw at the Asia Hotel in the Chinese capitol.

John Joe Nevin and Irish captain Ken Egan are through to Saturday's finals at the 2008 European Union Championships in Poland following impressive semi-final victories in Cetniewo this afternoon.

IT WAS a day of amazing contrasts for Irish boxers at the World Championships in Chicago yesterday when middleweight Darren Sutherland had his hand raised in victory without having thrown a punch and then David Oliver Joyce, who threw every punch in the book, went out of the tournament to Davi Souza of Brazil 21-10.

John Joe Joyce bowed out of the AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers at the University of Illinois in Chicago after he lost his preliminary round light welterweight clash to Hungary's Gyula Kate in the early hours of this morning.

All five Irish boxers have made this mornings weigh-in for this afternoons European Union Championships finals at the National Stadium in Dublin.

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.

Flyweight Conor Ahern got Irelands European Union Championships campaign off to a flying start with a thrilling 20-19 victory over England's Stewart Langley at the National Stadium in Dublin today.