Olympic champion Katie Taylor beat France’s Estelle Mossely to claim an unprecedented sixth successive European Elite lightweight title in Bucharest, Romania today.

Irish middleweight Jason Quigley will move into a top four position in the AIBA rankings before Christmas to cap a year in which he has won European gold and World silver.

Irish welterweight Adam Nolan controversially crashed out of the AIBA World Elite Championships at the last-64 stage despite ending up with more points than his opponent yesterday.

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

Katie Taylor hammered out her 53rd straight championship win to move to within one victory of claiming her fifth successive EU title with a comfortable semi-final victory over Mira Potkonen in Hungary yesterday.

Ireland’s Elite boxers, for the third time in the last three years, finished in second spot in rankings table behind powerhouses Russia at the European Championships.

The Irish Elite team got their heads together following a backs-to-the-wall team talk at the European Championships in Minsk, Belarus, according to head coach Billy Walsh.

The Irish 2012 Olympic team and Katie Taylor scooped the top accolades at the Irish Amateur Boxing Association’s Annual Awards Night at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin last night.

Adam Nolan has become the fifth Irish boxer to qualify for the London Olympics after his semi-final win over Romania’s Ionut Gheorghe in Trabzon, Turkey today.

IT was high fives all round for Katie Taylor on Saturday night after she claimed her fifth European Senior title in a row in Rotterdam.

CURRENT World champion Katie Taylor will meet Russia’s former world champion Sofya Ochigava in today’s European lightweight final in Rotterdam.

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.

PADDY BARNES put his devastation at not being able to defend his title to one side and is backing his Irish team-mates to finish in podium positions at the European Championships in Ankara, Turkey.

WORLD Youth champion Joe Ward, Darren O’Neill, John Joe Nevin and Con Sheehan all advanced to today’s finals at the Feliks Stamm Multi-Nations tournament following semi-final wins yesterday.

Ireland will be taking home one gold, one silver and three bronze medals from the 2010 European Senior Championships at the Ice Palace in Moscow.

The IABA have announced a 12-strong squad for the upcoming Prime Ministry Tournament in Ankara, Turkey.

HEAD coach Billy Walsh is convinced he has the talent to better the three-medal haul from Liverpool when he takes his team to the European Championships in Moscow next June.

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.

Katie Taylor, Paddy Barnes and Carl Frampton all won their semi-final bouts at the men's and women's Ahmet Comert Cup in Istanbul, Turkey today.

Team Ireland received a rapturous reception after returning home from the 2008 Olympics via Dublin Airport today.

The chances of the five-man Irish boxing team having a successful campaign in Beijing next month could all hinge on the draw, according to women's boxing star Katie Taylor.

DARREN SUTHERLAND, Kenneth Egan and John Joe Joyce are just one fight away from Olympic qualification after an exciting day for the Irish team at the qualifying tournament in Athens.

Middleweight Darren Sutherland will take no further part in sparring sessions at the Irish squad's training camp in France after sustaining a facial injury last night.

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

THE powerful Russians will visit Ireland a the end of the month to box two internationals, one at the National Stadium on April 27 and the other at Athlone IT on April 29.

Ireland will take on Russia in two internationals at the end of this month the Irish Amateur Boxing Association have confirmed.