Amir Khan has expressed disappointment at the news that Ireland’s Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has reversed an earlier decision to sign professional terms with Khan’s Super Fight Promotions.

There was a festival atmosphere on the streets of Mullingar as thousands of fans lined the streets to welcome home Westmeath’s Olympic heroes.

Andy Lee, Ireland’s only boxer to qualify for the Athens Olympics in 2004, believes John Joe Nevin’s victory over Cuba’s world bantamweight champion, Lazaro Alvarez, was one of the best contests of the whole tournament.

John Joe Nevin has won a silver medal in the bantamweight boxing at the Olympics.

A canoeist dubbed “the Usain Bolt of the water” claimed another gold medal for Britain today.

Ireland's John Joe Nevin and Great Britain's Luke Campbell will resume one of the most intense and engrossing rivalries in amateur boxing today when they fight for Olympic bantamweight gold at the ExCeL Arena at 8.45pm.

John Joe Nevin set up the fight of the Olympic boxing finals when he out-fought world champion Lazaro Alvarez in a thrilling semi-final bout at the ExCeL yesterday.

The crowds and the noise level may not have rattled the Richter scale to the same extent as Katie’s gold medal moment, but the Irish were again out in force in the ExCel arena yesterday afternoon.

There were mixed emotions for the Irish supporters in the Official Irish Olympic House in Kings Cross, London today after watching John Joe Nevin book a final place, but Paddy Barnes lose out on a final spot following a countback.

John Joe Nevin is hoping to emulate compatriot Katie Taylor with Olympic gold after seeing off world champion Estrada Alvarez to reach the final of the men’s bantamweight division.

John Joe Nevin will fight for gold in the men's Olympic bantamweight final after defeating Cuba's Alvarez Estrada 19-14 in his semi-final at the ExCel arena.

JOE WARD (Moate) got his defence of his light heavyweight title off to a flying start at the Elite National finals at the National Stadium last night and immediately threw down the gauntlet to Kenny Egan, who he beat to claim it last year.

British boxer Anthony Joshua, the 22-year-old who hopes to follow in the footsteps of Audley Harrison, was today tipped to be a home town star at the Olympics next summer.

JOHN JOE NEVIN bowed out of the World Boxing Championships in Baku yesterday after losing his bantamweight semi-final against Luke Campbell on a countback after the judges’ scoring tied the pair at 12 points apiece at end of three thrilling rounds.

Ireland's John Joe Nevin has lost his semi-final in Baku at the World Boxing Championships.

HAVING already made history by becoming the first Irishman to win two medals at the World Championships, John Joe Nevin wants to cash in his bronze medal for at least a silver when he goes in against Englishman Luke Campbell in today’s bantamweight semi-final in Baku.

TEENAGE Irish swimming sensation Sycerika McMahon is shaking up the traditional powerhouses in Europe with a second gold medal in as many days at the Tasmajdan Swimming Complex in Serbia.

JOHN JOE NEVIN, Darren O’Neill and Eric Donovan all won their contests on what was an brilliant day for Irish boxers at the world championships in Milan yesterday.

Ken Egan is out of the 2009 European Union Championships after slipping to a surprise 7-6 defeat to Hungarian light heavyweight Imre Szello in Denmark today.

Irish 2008 Olympian John Joe Nevin beat reigning European bantamweight champion Luke Campbell of England 13-2 in the semi-finals of the European Union Championships in Odense, Denmark this afternoon.

Luke Campbell was crowned England’s first European amateur champion for 47 years after a nail-biting countback victory over experienced Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev in Liverpool tonight.