Irish trio guaranteed to be among the medals

IRELAND’S boxing team at the European senior championships in Moscow have already secured three bronze medals – at least – after the first quarter-final session in which Olympic silver medallist, Kenneth Egan, middleweight Darren O’Neill and Donegal debutant, Tyrone McCullough, all recorded big wins.

However there was disappointment for Mullingar welterweight, John Joe Joyce (St Michael’s, Athy), a bronze medallist at the European championships in Liverpool two years ago, who went under 9-1.

Darren O’Neill turned in the best performance of his career to claim his first major championship medal and admitted he was driven by past disappointments.