Olympic boxing medallist Jim McCourt dies

McCourt is a member of the Irish Amateur Boxing Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2011. 

2011: Irish Boxing Champions Andrew Reddy, left, from Dublin, and Jim McCourt, from Belfast, who were honoured by Lucozade Sport and the Association of Sports Journalists in Ireland at a luncheon in the Radisson Hotel, Stillorgan, Dublin. Pic: Sportsfile

Olympic boxing bronze medallist Jim McCourt has passed away aged 79.

The Belfast man - bronze medallist at the 1964 games - was Ireland's lone medalist at the competition in Japan.