Reigning Irish featherweight champion David Oliver Joyce joined Ryan Lindberg and Ross Hickey in the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a convincing 16-3 win over British 2008 Olympian Joe Murray at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool this afternoon.

BILLY WALSH will be looking for more of the same from Ryan Lindberg and Willie McLoughlin at the European Championships in Liverpool today when Ireland will have four boxers fighting for places in the quarter-finals.

THE Irish challenge got off to an astonishing start at the European boxing championships in Liverpool yesterday when the two boxers in action won their respective contests and the other seven members of the team got byes into the last 16 in their divisions.

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.

TYSON FUREY will discover this morning if he can contest the Irish National Boxing Championship at the National Stadium.

ERIC DONOVAN kept Irish spirits on a high with an emphatic if not sensational 33-17 victory over a highly-rated Hungarian lightweight, Miklos Varga, at the World Boxing Championships in Chicago last night.

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.

Irish middleweight Darren O'Neill and super heavyweight Cathal McMonagle are through to the quarter finals of the Ustinad Laben Senior Multi Nations following impressive victories in the Czech Republic tonight (May 16th).

The 2007 National U-19 Championships will recommence at the National Stadium in Dublin at 5.30pm this afternoon and continue until all semi final bouts are completed.

IRELAND’S amateur boxers got off to a flying start in the multi-nations tournament in Zagreb — the Zlatio Hebid 2007 — yesterday with David Oliver Joyce particularly impressive in his fourth round stoppage of Amtomin Lazoc (Czech Republic) in a hard-hitting featherweight contest.

KENNETH EGAN took just 22 seconds to claim his seventh successive national senior title — his fifth at light heavyweight — and he immediately turned his attentions to qualification for next year’s Olympic Games after overwhelming Willie Mitchell in what was the mismatch of the night at the national senior championship finals at the National Stadium last night.

IRISH champion Tricia Mangan secured a crucial singles point for Great Britain and Ireland in their Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Chantilly yesterday.

The magical world is sawn in half over a US museum exhibit that has let the secret of Harry Houdini’s legendary Metamorphosis escape trick out of the bag.

Three German siblings who say they are illegitimate children of American aviation legend Charles Lindbergh have stayed tight-lipped over reports that their aunt also had two children with the pilot.