O’Reilly in Irish team

THE Boxing Council of the IABA selected Michael O’Reilly (Portlaoise) on the Irish team for the European Youth Championships which commence in the City West Convention Centre today.

The 18-year-old Portlaoise teenager was dropped from the squad for disciplinary reasons but last week the High Court ordered that he be re-instated. And Saturday’s decision to add him to the team means that he enters the tournament as a gold medal favourite.

Earlier this year he won a gold and scooped the Best Boxer Award at the Brandenburg Youth Cup.