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The Rocky Road boxing pod, #TheFighter on eir. Chief sub/boxing @IrishSunSport . Junior C goalie Reporter: 'Was he awkward?' Quarry: 'Well he fell awkwardly.'
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I took a walk around Sheriff St with local boxer Pierce O'Leary (where it was hard to walk 5m without someone stopping him to say hi). The dream is to headline the 3Arena down the road and to become the biggest name in Irish boxing along the way. Part 1:
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Just got a battered sausage and yer man didn't throw in a scoop of chips. I'll never darken his door again
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It as a long, arduous journey with more lows than highs. We almost accepted the day would never come. But we kept plugging away and yesterday it finally happened. Stephen Kenny's Ireland team finally won a match. In other news, we had a daughter, named Rose
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Scenes in Yerevan as Ireland's Gabriell Dossen beats England's Lewis Richardson to win European gold at middleweight. Tremendous bout
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Years after being told privately that Sky wouldn't be showing his fights if they could help it, Jono Carroll's day has come
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Broken ribs three weeks ago, man of the match today. Padraig O'Hora is some animal
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Cork's
@spike_osullivan
will take on Cuba's Erislandy Lara for his WBA world middleweight title on May 28 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Co-main event to the Gervonta Davis v Rolando Romero fight
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Gold medal ceremony for
@Kelly64kg
, only Ireland's third AIBA World senior champ and seventh title overall (
@KatieTaylor
x5,
@mickconlan11
)
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Olympic champion Kellie Harrington meets unidentified fan at Dublin Airport after returning home from Tokyo
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Boxrec has 60 UK super-featherweights listed. How do you not find one who wants to fight Anto Cacace at Wembley? How?
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John McNally 1952 🥈
Fred Tiedt 1956 🥈
Wayne McCullough 1992 🥈
Michael Carruth 1992 🥇
Kenneth Egan 2008 🥈
John Joe Nevin 2012 🥈
Katie Taylor 2012 🥇
The 8th Irish boxer to make it to an Olympic final is Kellie Harrington 2020/1 & going for 🥇
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Boxing on RTE, those were the days
In 2009 a very young
@Tyson_Fury
fought in front of an excited Dublin crowd and promised
@MartyM_RTE
that he would win a world title and defend it in Croke Park.
Watch more of the event here:
Read:
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Aidan and Michaela Walsh - the first time a boxing brother and sister have qualified for the Olympic Games
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Irish U22 heavyweight champ Kevin Sheehy was the victim in a hit-and-run incident last night in Limerick. A real talent who left his mark on
#IrishBoxing
. Was going to be a dad soon. May he RIP
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TJ Doheny got the verdict.
TJ DOHENY GOT THE VERDICT!
Ireland has a new world champion!
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#JoeWard
Age: 23
Club: Moate
09 World Jr 🥇
10 World Yt 🥇
13 World Sr 🥉
15 World Sr 🥈
17 World Sr 🥈
11 Euro Sr 🥇
15 Euro Sr 🥇
17 Euro Sr 🥇
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Tribute to late boxer Mike Towell in his hometown of Dundee
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Waterford light-heavyweight Kelyn Cassidy's into the quarter-finals at the World Championships in Belgrade, one win from a medal, after superb win over Shabbos Negmatulloev of Tajikistan just now
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Thirty years in the game, give or take. A rocky old road. Eric Donovan kept the faith
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This year for the Olympics, AIBA outlawed appeals. Think on that for a second.
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Mick Conlan dedicating his win to murdered Limerick heavyweight Kevin Sheehy, whose daughter was only born yesterday, was a lump-in-the-throat moment
#IrishBoxing
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Andy Lee's just led Sonny Bill Williams to a one-round annihilation of Barry Hall down in Oz
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Katie Taylor the first Irish boxer to hold three belts in the alphabet era
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Young Corkman Callum Walsh is making moves
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World bronze at least secured for Joe Ward via unanimous win over Mikhail Dauhaliavets (Belarus). Had it all his own way. Now a 3x medallist
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Lads Belfast boxer Brendan Irvine has just qualified to become a two-time Olympian with a dominant display
#IrishBoxing
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Eric Donovan gets it. New European Union super-featherweight champ after a hell of a fight
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Thought he was fighting for the IVF title
Exclusive: Conor Benn has failed a drugs test ahead of his fight against Chris Eubank Jnr via
@MailSport
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Nine years today. Irish boxing's JFK moment. RIP Darren Sutherland
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You follow 0 Irish boxing journalists on Twitter
What an achievement by
@KatieTaylor
World Champion 🙌🏻The lack of media support this week for her in Ireland was a shambles.
#legend
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Katie Taylor (WBA) is Ireland's first world lightweight champ since Cork's 'Napoleon of the Ring' Jack McAuliffe who retired undefeated 1897
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Jake Paul gave the undercard fighters 50% of their purse when his main event got canned. It's the least the
#EubankJrBenn
support acts deserve after this farce
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'RIP KS' is a tribute to the late Kevin Sheehy who was killed in a hit and run. Sheehy's coach
@ken_moore31
says: 'Incredible gesture from Mick Conlan RIP KS on his shorts for this Saturday night fight in memory of Kevin Sheehy.
Class act all round. A true Irish champ.'
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Former AIBA world champ vs former IBF world champ,
@mickconlan11
v
@TjDoheny
This is the biggest
#IrishBoxing
derby in an age
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Lads, he's only gone and done it. Michael O'Reilly becomes the eighth Irish boxer to qualify for Rio with this win
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First title shot:
@paddyb_ireland
fights for the WBO European flyweight belt at Waterfront Hall, Belfast on June 17. Just his 3rd pro fight
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Lisa O'Rourke jumps for joy after winning GOLD at her debut Women's World Championships, beating 🇲🇿 in a thrilling final. What a week for the Roscommon fighter who's only just turned 20
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Dublin light-heavyweight Emmet Brennan (
@emmetbrennan91
) is going to Tokyo. Won a box-off v Sweden by unanimous decision
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Remarkable shot of the Groves-Cox finishing punch by
@rheathcote
of
@GettySport
, which
@BoxingNewsED
have rightly used for their cover 👊👏
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Lads, this video is class.
Katie Taylor - Ireland's first World Championships gold medallist - phones the latest, Lisa O'Rourke, to offer congratulations
@EddieHearn
@DAZNBoxing
@IrishSunSport
@IABABOXING
@KevByrneBox
@J0E_90
@mjon3105
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@LoiWomen
@Hanelizaa
The great @
@KatieTaylor
congratulating Lisa O’Rourke after her world Championships win tonight. Class Katie as usual 🥊🇮🇪🥊🇮🇪
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Declan Rice should move into Rory Best's house til this all blows over
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Kurt Walker: "I showed everyone back home. They only see this every four years so I showed everyone how good I am. People will know my name after these Olympics."
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An update from Joe Ward: 'According to the doctors it's a short-term injury... it's going to add to my story and I will be world champion, no doubt in my mind."
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Ireland finish up with 3x gold (Harrington, Broadhurst, A O'Rourke), 2x silver (Fryers, Desmond), 2x bronze (M Walsh, Sweeney) at the European Championships in Montenegro. Record haul
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2009 World Jr gold
10 World Yt gold
13 World Sr bronze
15 World Sr silver
17 ?
11 Euro Sr gold
15 Euro Sr gold
17 Euro Sr gold
#JoeWard
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Dennis Hogan takes the IBO world light-middleweight title from Sam Eggington.
"I've been through the biggest obstacles. Winning this is a sign for everybody to keep persisting, keep believing.
"You can f***ing do it."
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Amy Broadhurst 🇮🇪 has done it. World champion at light-welterweight after a unanimous decision win against 🇩🇿
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Majority decision win for Jason Quigley against Shane Mosley Jr in Las Vegas. Some emotion upon hearing the result. A fight that found its feet
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Gutted to hear that Ryan Burnett has retired from boxing. But also beat the odds just to make it to the summit of the sport. Youth Olympic champ. Failed brain scan before debut. Homeless for a while. Two world title belts
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Not only are Lisa O'Rourke and Amy Broadhurst coming home from Turkey with World Cship gold medals, they've also secured the top prize money at the tournament - just over €86,000 apiece, as well as top funding of €40,000 with Sport Ireland. One of the great days of
#IrishBoxing
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A savage. Amy Broadhurst books herself another date with the podium with this punishing TKO2 win over Serbia at the Europeans today
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Three of the four judges who awarded against Daina Moorehouse v Wassila Lkhadidi were eventually removed from the competition
#Paris2024
#Olympics
#boxing
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Joe Ward, 14 months on from a horror pro debut when he dislocated his kneecap, makes his comeback tonight - in Mexico 🇲🇽. Have I any further info at all? No
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Irish bantamweight
@KurtWalker7
marches into the World Championships quarter-final after UD win v Canada's Robin Basran
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Young Belfast boxer TJ Waite won his fight at National seniors tonight over Jason McKay.
Waite's mother died earlier today. Unreal balls
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Kellie Harrington succeeded Katie Taylor as world lightweight champion
She has now succeeded her as an Olympic medallist at lightweight
Two wins needed to turn bronze into gold
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Hogan has two kids, a new house and loads of career options. In 2019 he should have been crowned world champ with one of the greatest away performances I've ever seen by an Irish boxer. He's been a credit to the sport, whatever he decides to do next
#TszyuHogan
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Not just anyone who's lost his Top10 slot either -
@RealCFrampton
replaces
@Canelo
. 1st Irish fighter to make list
.
@RealCFrampton
enters the pound-for-pound rankings at No7 with Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (
@TBRBoard
)
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Jack Marley, 20, has just brushed aside Croatia's Marko Calic (a 35-year-old with a 14-1 pro record) to reach the
#EG2023
podium. Needs one more win to make it to Paris 2024 for the Olympics. Made it look easy
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Galway middleweight Gabriel Dossen secures Ireland's first medal at the European Championships with a 4-1 win over Norway's Mindaugas Dedminas. Dossen is a special talent, fastest hands since the Waco Kid
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Twenty years ago today, Eamonn Magee knocked down Ricky Hatton in the first round with the 'worst punch I ever threw in my life – one I always regret. If I had landed that punch in rounds six or seven, I guarantee that he wouldn’t have got up'.
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Rose was born the same week Kellie Harrington qualified for Tokyo. In her first five minutes on earth I was telling her she can grow up to be like her mammy, Mary Robinson, Beyonce and Kellie Harrington. No pressure kid
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Kudos to TJ Doheny for winning both the IBF world super-bantam title and the All-Valley Karate Championships on his visit to Japan
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This year alone Amy Broadhurst has won the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and now the European Championships. An absurd season.
Hammered Ukraine's Maria Bova today to grab her latest gold medal
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On this day 40 years ago - May 10, 1981 -
@ClonesCyclone
made his professional debut at
@bfcdublin
's Dalymount Park in Dublin, where he knocked out Selvin Bell in the second round
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It's a superb GOLD for Ireland bantamweight
@KurtWalker7
at the EU Championships after a career-best, tactically-astute performance against Peter McGrail of England
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Sean McComb to captain NI boxing team at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, which seems entirely proper
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Seven Irish boxers in the semi-finals of the Women's European Championships on Friday, all with good prospects of making Saturday's finals.
It's completely shattered the old medals record.
If this isn't TV worthy - in the national interest - I'm not sure what is
#CantSeeCantBe
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That's Munster welterweight Paddy Donovan moving to 3-0 with a 3rd-Rd KO in Bolton tonight.
The
@trboxing
/
@AndyLeeBoxing
prospect will be in action at
@TheGarden
on Paddy's weekend
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Ten Irish boxers going to the Olympics. Famous day, today, as four got over the line. Pity there was no highlights package shown tonight on our TVs - we'll be seeing a lot of those fighters in a few weeks
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.
@TheNotoriousMMA
back in the Crumlin Boxing Club last night and reunited with his old coach Bra Brady. Pics via the club's FB page. Wonder if Bra got the €70 back that he claims he'd for plumbing tools back in the day
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For an Irish boxing enthusiast, missing
@JamieConlan11
's world title shot is like one of the Ballyragget boys being on holidays for the county final
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America's next big thing... Might be waiting a while to see the Frampton/Conlan fight after he gets locked up
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What a moment - the magnificent middleweight Aoife O'Rourke is European champion after one of the great, great performances
#IrishBoxing
#Roscommon
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Hit the road, Jack, you're off to Paris 2024
Heavyweight Jack Marley's into the
#EG2023
final after 4-1 win over Spain's Enmanuel Reyes
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As he flies out to the USA, Spike O'Sullivan tells me: “I’m going to become the oldest Irishman to become world champion. You’re never too old to achieve your dreams. I believe I’m going to achieve mine anyway.”
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@MElliott_esq
@bigfoams
"It's British racism." / "But this is an Irish paper." / "Ah sure, same thing."
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