Ireland’s leading female boxers touch gloves in star-studded charity bout

TWO of Ireland’s leading female boxers, Olga Cronin (Dungarvan) and Laura O’Neill (Kilkenny), will touch gloves when Rylane Boxing Club stage a star-studded charity show in aid of Macroom Hospital at the River Park Hotel in Macroom on Sunday night.

Both boxers were winners when Ireland boxed an English selection in the first all-female boxing international which was staged in Dungarvan at the beginning of the month and since then, Olga Cronin has gone on to win the Munster title.

Katie Taylor’s back to back successes at European and world championships have resulted in an upsurge in interest in Irish female boxing which is going from strength to strength and Sunday night’s pairing will highlight this fact.