With victory over Ecuador’s Carlos Sanchez under his belt and all the tension that goes with an Olympic debut out of the way, high performance coach Billy Walsh feels Adam Nolan can advance to greater things in London.

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.

IRELAND will win one medal and qualify three boxers for London 2012 if targets set in advance of the World Championships in Baku are met.

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.

THIS may have been a box-off to select the team for the world championships and the first opportunity to qualify for next year’s Olympic Games but none of the recent medallists were in sight when the tournament got under way last night at the National Stadium.

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 John Joe Nevin has lost 13-12 to his Russian opponent in the quarter-finals of 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.

IRELAND’S Elite boxers are approaching the business end of the European Senior Championships in Turkey after claiming eight wins out of 10 in Ankara over the weekend.

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.

ROSS HICKEY, who won a national senior title at lightweight back in 2008, launched his campaign at light-welter at last night’s national elite championships at the National Stadium with victory over Crumlin’s Stephen Carroll.

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.

PRESIDENT of the IABA, Dominic O’Rourke has described the decision of the Italians to withdraw from Sunday night’s boxing international in Belfast after four bouts as extremely unsporting and totally unnecessary.

JOHN JOE JOYCE (St Michael’s, Athy) was celebrating his move up to welterweight with another national title at the National Stadium last night but the defending champion, Willie McLaughlin (Illies GG, Donegal), was scratching his head on the wrong side of a 12-9 verdict.

TWO years ago Kenneth Egan was at a crossroads in his boxing career after a disappointing performance at the world championships in Chicago while qualification for the Olympics still eluded him.

IRELAND'S boxers have maintained their high flying positions in the first AIBA Official World rankings published for 2010 yesterday.

ROY SHEAHAN (St Michael’s, Athy) will have the ideal opportunity to get his international career back on track when he guests for the Garda/Rylane selection against the New York Police Department in a sell-out dinner show at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork on Saturday night.

JOHN JOE NEVIN laid claim to a bronze medal and put himself in line for even greater things when he outpointed Chinese bantamweight Yu Gu, 7-5, to qualify for tomorrow semi-finals at the World boxing championships in Milan.

Ken Egan and Willie McLaughlin both bowed out of the AIBA World Championships at the quarter final stage in Milan this afternoon.

THERE will be three Irish boxers in action in the quarter-finals of the world championships in Milan this afternoon after Darren O’Neill and Declan Geraghty exited the tournament last night.

Willie McLaughlin and Ken Egan are just one bout away from at least a bronze medal apiece at the AIBA World Championships in Milan following last 16 wins this afternoon.

Willie McLaughlin and Ken Egan progressed to the last 16 of the AIBA World Senior Championships following impressive wins in Milan this afternoon.

David Oliver Joyce is out of the World Championships following a 16-11 reversal to Mexican featherweight Oscar Valdez in Milan today.

David Oliver Joyce recorded an emphatic 28-3 victory over Thai featherweight Wuttichai Masuk at the 15th AIBA World Senior Championships in Milan this afternoon.

Donegal welterweight Willie McLaughlin recorded Ireland's fourth win in a row at the AIBA World Championships this morning after earning an inside the distance last 64 victory over Come Ndyishmiye of Burundi.

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.

THE draw did Irish boxers few favours at the world boxing championships in Milan and this was reflected on the first day of competition when they met with mixed fortunes.

THREE European championship medallists, one of whom is an Olympian, and two national champions have missed out as the Irish team that departs today for a training camp ahead of next month’s world amateur boxing championships in Milan was named.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed an 11-man squad for next month's 2009 AIBA World Senior Championships in Milan, Italy.

DARREN O’NEILL will miss the Open Tournament which will be held at the National Stadium over the coming two weekends to help select the Irish boxing team for the world championships in Milan in September.

The Irish senior boxing team were celebrating a treble today after David Oliver Joyce, Darren O'Neill and Con Sheehan claimed three golds at the 2009 European Union Championships in Odense, Denmark, today.

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.