Bantamweight John Joe Nevin and Kilkenny middleweight Darren O'Neill have earned spots at the London Olympics next summer with wins in their last 16 bouts at the World championship in Baku.

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.

Roy Sheehan is facing a race against time to be fit for the final Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens in April after breaking his left hand in sparring at the Irish squads training camp in Perugia, Italy yesterday.

Irish captain Ken Egan has claimed a third gold medal for Ireland at the EU Championships in the National Stadium on South Circular Road in Dublin this afternoon.

Roy Sheehan and Darren Sutherland have won gold for Ireland at the EU Boxing Championships at the National Stadium.

All five Irish boxers have made this mornings weigh-in for this afternoons European Union Championships finals at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Five Irishmen are in action today in the semi-finals of the EU Boxing Championships at the National Stadium.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St. Michael’s, Athy) faces a showdown with reigning light welterweight champion Aodh Carlyle at the National Stadium tomorrow with a place on the Irish team for the EU boxing championships the prize.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) have arranged a specially convened bout to decide the one remaining place on the Irish team for the European Union Championships which will take place at the National Stadium in Dublin next month. (June 17th to 25th).

Irish lightweight John Joe Joyce bowed out of the Feliks Stamm Senior Multi Nations in Poland at the semi final stage this morning after he lost out by a margin of five points to ex Polish Olympian Krzysztof Szot in Warsaw.

Nine Irish boxers are in top 20 positions in the official European men's and women's rankings for December.

Irish boxer Roy Sheehan has beaten Michele Cirillo of Italy (37 to 19) in his opening bout of the Welterweight division of the European Senior Boxing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria today.

Ireland will be represented by five boxers at the XIII World Senior Boxing Championships that will be staged in 11 Olympic Weight Classes (48 kgs - + 91 kgs) in Mianyang City, China, beginning today.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association has selected five boxers to represent Ireland at the World Championships in China in November.

IRISH Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) Elite Director Gary Keegan was full of praise for the Irish squad after they landed four gold medals at yesterday’s Vajdin Senior Multi Nations in Albania.

SHORTLY after arriving in Dublin for the weekend’s two-day quadrangular junior international boxing match at the National Stadium starting this evening, the French management were up in arms over the format.

DUBLINER Ben Dunne hopes to finish off his apprenticeship in style when he boxes his final four-rounder against Eric Trujillo, a reigning Golden Gloves champion from Colorado, at Sam’s Town Casino in Las Vegas tomorrow night.