Sutherland will be on flight for Chicago

DARREN SUTHERLAND will be on the flight when the Irish boxing team leave Dublin on October 16 for the world championships in Chicago.

The two-time national senior middleweight champion, and a current EU champion, caused a scare when he suffered a facial injury during sparring at the training camp in Fontainebleau last week.

“I got a bit of a cut in training, but luckily it is not as serious as initially thought,” he said yesterday as the 13-strong squad went through their paces before returning to Dublin later today.