Day of judgment as quartet close in on medals

DAVID OLIVER JOYCE, his cousin John Joe Joyce, Belfast middleweight, Eamonn O’Kane and 20-year-old Clonmel heavyweight Con Sheehan will all be battling for medals and semi-final places at the European Boxing Championships in Liverpool today.

David, of St Michael’s, Athy, has on paper, the biggest assignment of them all when he goes in against the reigning Olympic champion, Vasyl Loma-chenko (Ukraine) in the quarter-finals of the featherweight division.

“It is a difficult task,” Billy Walsh admitted. “Lomachenko is the best pound for pound in Europe, if not in the world right now.