Conlan and Barnes lead NI challenge

BOXING: Olympic boxing bronze medallists Michael Conlan and Paddy Barnes will lead a team of 117 Northern Ireland athletes to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month.

The pair form part of an 11-strong boxing squad hoping to replicate their heroics four years ago in Delhi, when they won five medals.

Conlan said: “I went to Delhi thinking I was going to do great but everything went pear-shaped, and the memory of that has driven me on ever since.”