KATIE TAYLOR will launch her 2008 season in Fermoy tonight when she meets Klara Svensson of Sweden on a bill that will include eight women’s contests at the Loreto Sports Complex (7.30pm).

IRELAND can have more than one boxer at next year’s Beijing Olympics, insists high performance director Gary Keegan, but he admitted next spring’s qualifiers in Italy and Greece could be more difficult than the World Championships.

World and three times European lightweight (60Kg) champion Katie Taylor claimed yet another victory after stopping Canadian Katie Dunn at the University of Illinois in Chicago last night.

PADDY BARNES went the full distance with the world champion, Shiming Zou from China, in their light flyweight quarter final at the World Championships in Chicago but his brave effort ended in the defeat.