Katie Taylor will box for her fifth EU Championship lightweight title on the trot tomorrow after seeing off Finland's Mira Potkonen at the semi-final stage.

Katie Taylor has admitted that she would love to face Natasha Jonas again at this year’s European Union Boxing Championships.

Life after London has been a curious mixture of mania outside the ring and calm inside it for Katie Taylor but that is all about to change for the Olympic champion who will return to action for the first time since the Games early next year.

Four crazy, blurred months have spun by since Katie Taylor claimed gold at the ExCel Arena in London and Peter Taylor, her father and coach, expressed the hope that his daughter would walk away from the ring for the last time.

Olympic Champion Katie Taylor will return to ring on Sunday, February 24, at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin.

Confined to barracks, the 11-month-old girl kept me company in front of the television for Katie Taylor’s first fight this week with Natasha Jonas.

British boxer Natasha Jonas, who was unlucky to meet Katie Taylor in her opening Olympic bout, has been invited to the All-Ireland Hurling Final next month at Croke Park.

Women’s boxing at London 2012 was all about Katie Taylor and yesterday the woman who played such a big role in getting it added to the Olympic programme was rewarded by having a gold medal hung round her neck.

IT was history in the making — an historic day for boxing and for the whole Olympic movement as the first three gold medals in women’s boxing were decided. And a dream realised for Ireland’s Katie Taylor, the driving force to have the discipline added to the Olympic programme.

Katie Taylor’s opponent in today’s gold medal decider has accused judges of giving the Irish woman 10 points before she even steps into the ring.

Katie Taylor's home town is gearing up for her Olympic semi-final fight this afternoon.

Four times world champion, five times European champion, odds-on for an Olympic gold, and now the darling of the boxing world.

As one news outlet correctly surmised, women’s boxing already had a star.

Having spent her career dominating a discipline inexplicably isolated by the Olympics, Katie Taylor has guaranteed herself a prize from the pantheon of sport.

Seconds out, round one over but the real fight is still to come.

More than 6,000 boxing fans lined Bray seafront to see local girl Katie Taylor secure a bronze at the Olympics.

Pete Taylor is treating the Olympic Games the same as any other tournament that his daughter Katie boxes in.

Katie Taylor has said she is determined to win the gold for Ireland in the women's lightweight boxing at the London Olympics.

There was no reason to be worried about Katie Taylor's first fight at the Olympics as the Bray fighter pummelled her way into the semi-finals of the women's lightweight competition.

All eyes will be on Ireland's golden girl Katie Taylor when she makes her Olympic debut this afternoon.

Katie Taylor will make her long awaited Olympic debut when she fights for a medal against Natasha Jonas of Great Britain in the quarter-final of the lightweight boxing division.

Pete Taylor said they were preparing for a tough fight at the ExCel Arena today (2.30pm) when his daughter, Katie, will take on Natasha Jonas for the bronze medal at the inaugural women’s Olympic tournament.

If Katie Taylor needed reminding about the enormity of the task as she bids for the medal that has been anticipated since women’s boxing became part of the Olympic programme then it came loud and clear from Britain’s Natasha Jonas yesterday.

Katie Taylor will know her opponent for Monday’s quarter-finals after tomorrow afternoon’s session at the ExCel Centre where Natasha Jonas and Queen Underwood meet.

Irish team manager Des Donnelly, said Katie Taylor is focused and ready for first assignment next Monday when she will meet either Queen Underwood (USA) or Natasha Jonas (Great Britain) for a bronze medal.

Katie Taylor may not have received the easiest of draws for her Olympic debut but coach and father Pete insists it will not faze the favourite for gold.

And so it begins.

Four-time world champion Katie Taylor has been placed in the tougher half of the draw in the women's lightweight category at the London Olympics.

Just one boxer stands between Katie Taylor and a fourth successive world title after another thrilling day for the Irish at the women’s world boxing championships in Qinhuangdao yesterday.

Katie Taylor must wait until Monday to start her campaign underway at the Women’s World Boxing Championships in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao, where her quest for a fourth successive lightweight title is overshadowed by her search for Olympic qualification.