Former European Elite and AIBA World Youth champion Ray Moylette believes he has a point to prove against Wexford’s Dean Walsh at the National Elite Championships at the National Stadium, Dublin.

Even now, after he’s gone and the Oireachtas hearing and the forest of newsprint his name and departure triggered, we don’t know what we’ve lost in Billy Walsh.

Boxing: Hailing from an estate named after Wolfe Tone, fighting seems to have come naturally to the Walsh family.

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London Olympian Adam Nolan admitted he ‘fell asleep’ in the second round of Saturday’s welterweight quarter-final at the National Elite Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium.

Former European champion Ray Moylette bounced back after being wobbled by Alexandros Tsanikidis in yesterday’s AIBA World Elite Championships clash in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Tommy McCarthy got Ireland’s World Elite Championships campaign underway with a unanimous decision over Nikolay Mutavski in Kazakhstan yesterday.

London 2012 Olympian Adam Nolan cruised into the last 16 of the European Championships with a unanimous decision (30-27,29-28,29-28) over Polish welter Tomasz Kot in Minsk, Belarus yesterday.

Irish Elite champion Ross Hickey had an operation on his broken left forearm in the Czech Republic yesterday and is a major doubt for June’s European Championships in Belarus.

Irish Olympic silver medalist Ken Egan has announced his retirement from boxing.

There has been a furious reaction from the Polish community to a Mayo judge’s comment, made in court, that the social welfare system is a “Polish charity”.

JOE WARD may have a pocketful of gold medals — world junior, world youths, European senior and a national senior gold — but tonight he climbs into the ring with fellow Westmeath man Davy Joe Joyce to decide his Olympic future.

KENNY EGAN kept his Olympic dream alive with an emphatic victory over fellow Dubliner Michael Frayne (St. Mary’s) in the Elite Boxing Championship quarter-finals at the National Stadium on Saturday night.

WITH the business end of the tournament looming, European light welterweight champion Ray Moylette turned in another barnstorming finish to beat Arturs Ahmetous (Latvia) 16-11 and qualify for the last 32 in Baku yesterday.

It has been another successful day for the Irish boxers at the World Boxing Championships in Azerbaijan.

ROY SHEAHAN, St Michael’s (Athy), got his World Championship campaign off to the perfect start when posting an impressive 15-10 victory over Carl Hield (Bahamas) in Baku yesterday and his next opponent, Borna Katalinic (Croatia) is a man he has beaten twice previously.

WHEN the high octane meeting of the IABA’s Boxing Council ended on Saturday at the National Stadium one was left wondering how the paranoia had been allowed to fester during the previous week’s tournament in Dublin.

THE Boxing Council of the IABA will meet at 11am today to select a team for the World Championships while the boxers settle into their training camp in Assisi alongside Olympic hopefuls from Italy, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

KENNY EGAN booked his place on Irish team for the World Championships in Baku with a 13-5 victory over Antrim heavyweight Stephen Ward, in the finals of the box-off on Saturday.

SIX weeks from the most important event of the year, Billy Walsh was sitting in the high performance unit on the South Circular Road in Dublin with not one of his boxers in sight.

CELEBRITIES such as Lady Gaga talking about hair loss highlight the suffering of women and children who have alopecia.

IRELAND’S two newly crowned European champions, Ray Moylette and Joe Ward, are still not guaranteed a shot at Olympic qualification.

BOXING. Major championships. Gold medals.

Ray Moylette and Joe Ward pulled off a golden double for Ireland in the European Amateur Championships in Ankara today.

Ray Moylette has won the light-welterweight gold medal at the European Boxing Championships in Turkey.

Mayo's Ray Moylette has won his light welterweight semi-final at the European Championships in Turkey meaning he is guaranteed at least a silver medal.

Irish boxers Joe Ward and Ray Moylette are both in semi-final action at the European Championships in Turkey today.

IRELAND’S Elite boxing team will be taking home at least two bronze medals from the European Championships following quarter-final wins for former and current AIBA World Youth champions Joe Ward and Ray Moylette in Ankara, Turkey yesterday.

One of Ireland's boxers has won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Turkey.

IRELAND’S Elite boxers are on the brink of claiming another record haul at the European Championships in Turkey one year after winning five medals in Moscow.

RAY MOYLETTE got Ireland’s European Championships campaign off to a winning start after easing into the last-16 with victory over Subhi Amara in Ankara, Turkey yesterday.

THE eight-man Irish squad of Elite boxers completed a perfect day with eight semi-finals wins from eight at the Ostrava Grand Prix in Ostrava city in the Czech Republic yesterday.

IRELAND will have four boxers fighting for medals at the European senior boxing championships in Moscow today after another sensational day at the Ice Palace.

KENNETH EGAN kept on course for an historic 10th successive Irish senior title with a one-sided 21-2 victory over Denis Hogan (Grangecon) in last night’s light heavyweight semi-final at the National Stadium.

Newly-crowned WBA super bantamweight champ Bernard Dunne admits that he was inspired by the Irish rugby team en route to his win over defending champ Ricardo Cordoba at The O2 Arena in Dublin on Saturday night.

BERNARD DUNNE’S old boxing coach, Peter Perry, believes the Dubliner will defy the odds and strip Ricardo Cordoba of his WBA world super bantamweight title at The O2 tomorrow night.

KENNETH EGAN is within one victory of a spectacular ninth successive national senior title following last night’s comprehensive defeat of Denis Hogan (Grangecon) in the first light heavyweight semi-final at the National Stadium.