Brendan Irvine boxes his way into the medals in Baku

Ireland’s first medal of the European Games in Baku has been claimed in the boxing ring by Brendan Irvine.

A tense encounter saw the St Paul’s Belfast light-flyweight edge out top seed and home Azerbaijan star Salman Aliadza in the tightest of split decisions, where another point the other way from any of the two judges who had scored it for the Irishman would have instead seen the Azeri win.