Aidan Walsh gets Team Ireland back to winning ways in the ring with comprehensive victory

Aidan Walsh of Ireland with coaches Dmitry Dmitruk, left, and Zaur Antia, right, after defeating Mengue Ayissi of Cameroon in the Men's Welterweight Round of 16 bout. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Aidan Walsh is one win away from an Olympic boxing medal after comprehensively overcoming Albert Mengue Ayissi of Cameroon.

The onus was firmly on the 24-year-old to arrest a run of three successive defeats for Team Ireland at Tokyo 2020, and he did so with aplomb, securing a unanimous verdict on scores of 29-26, 28-27 and three of 30-25.