Joyce first up as Irish get ‘fair’ world draw

WITH John Joe Joyce set to get the show on the road in the early hours of today Irish time, the Irish boxing team were last night perusing what High Performance Director, Gary Keegan, described as a ‘fair’ draw for the world championships in Chicago.

While there are no easy draws, the principals, welterweight Roy Sheahan, middleweight Darren Sutherland and light heavyweight Kenneth Egan, were all happy with the outcome of the new computerised system.

It paired light flyweight, Paddy Barnes from Belfast, with a little-known Korean, Kuk Chol Jon, for his opening contest, which was originally scheduled for yesterday afternoon but which was chopped later in the day.