O’Neill has focus only on O’Reilly

London 2012 Olympian Darren O’Neill has dismissed all talk of “high fives” ahead of his middleweight final with Portlaoise BC prospect Michael O’Reilly at the Elite National Championships.

Four-time champion O’Neill TKO’d Limerick’s Derek Duhig in the third round of Saturday’s 75kg semi-final. Duhig took three standing counts in the second and didn’t answer the bell for the third after he was retired by his corner.

O’Reilly, a silver medallist at the 2011 European Youths, beat Christy Joyce on a unanimous decision in the corresponding last-four clash at Dublin’s National Stadium.