Joyce misses out on team for world championships

THREE European championship medallists, one of whom is an Olympian, and two national champions have missed out as the Irish team that departs today for a training camp ahead of next month’s world amateur boxing championships in Milan was named.

The team was due to be released last week but that was postponed, so tight were the margins in some instances. In the end, head coach Billy Walsh gave his recommendations to the IABA central council, which ratified the team last night.

Amongst the high-profile omissions was John Joe Joyce, who only lost to the subsequent gold medallist at last year’s Olympics and was one of Ireland’s three bronze medal winners at the European Championships.