Author Archives: Louis O'Meara
Elite Competition – Complete Round-up
Finals – 14th Aug, 2011 After three days of boxing shrouded in controversy, the Open Elite Competition came to a conclusion today at the National stadium. In all we had 11 fights consisting of nine finals and two female internationals. … Continue reading
Boxing Recession gets Hyde-ing
Cork based boxing impresario Gary Hyde heads into a hectic six months of pugilistic activity as Team Nowhere2hyde undertakes challenges of both international and domestic nature that will include an Irish offering. With Irish boxing fans having finally come to … Continue reading
Medals for Young Pretenders
Bernard O’Neill (IABA) Martin Conroy, Luke Thomas and John Nevin are guaranteed at least a bronze medal each at the 34-nation European Junior Championships in Keszthely, Hungary following a hat-trick of quarter-final wins over the last 24-hours. Nevin progressed to … Continue reading
Champs have landed
Following their historic gold medal coup yesterday at the European Senior Championships in Ankara, Turkey Greenjab.ie amateur boxing reporter Louis O Meara was at Dublin airport this morning Ray Moylette and Joe Ward arrived back in Dublin this morning to a hero’s … Continue reading
Domestic Round-up
Wexford v Essex Last Saturday evening a Wexford select team took on a nine strong Essex team at the Amber Springs Hotel in Gorey. The Wexford Team captained by Irish International Niall Murray completed a good weekend for Irish sport … Continue reading
Profiling our Vested Hero’s, First-up Michael Conlan
Name: Michael Conlan Club: John Bosco Belfast D.O.B: 19th November 1991 Q. What age did you start boxing? A. I started boxing at the age of 7 Q. What clubs have you boxed for? A. I have only ever boxed … Continue reading
Difficult week for Irish Boxing
It has been a difficult couple of days for Irish amateur boxing with the passing away of two individuals who will be sadly missed by their family, community and Irish boxing. It was learned during the week that Patsy McCartan … Continue reading
German Loss
In the first of the round robin encounters taken place in Germany the Irish elite squad were edged out on a 5.4 score-line by the hosts . Michael Conlan got Ireland off to a perfect start with a 5.0 win … Continue reading
German Update
The Irish Elite squad flew out on Monday morning for a week long training session in Frankfurt. The Germans will supply two squads and there will also be a Great Britain squad. Joe Ward with was forced to withdraw from … Continue reading
Monkstown Club Show
On saturday night in front of a large attendance at Blackrock Rugby Club Monkstown ABC held a fundraising club show comprising of fifteen highly entertaining bouts . Opposition was made up of boxers from St Mathews, Kilnamanagh, Lucan , Golden Cobra … Continue reading
