Classic Irish Boxing Archives

Ireland at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics

Amsterdam 1928 The Irish Athletic Boxing Association, then the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, informed the media that they had ratified

By Bernard O’Neill Hugh Russell wrote another illustrious page in the history of Irish boxing at the 1980 Olympic Games

By Bernard O’Neill Irish boxing has won seven medals at the first two European Games. Katie Taylor and Michael O’Reilly

By Bernard O’Neill Ireland has won 22 medals at the World Men’s and Women’s Youth Championships since Eamonn Loughran and

Irish Olympic legend Paddy Barnes surprised when revealing the sporting success that mattered the most to him. The Belfast fighter,

By Bernard O’Neill Michael Conlan was switching from orthodox to southpaw so much at the 2015 World Elites in Doha

June 5, 2020 Jonny Stapleton

After landing flush and not dropping Kevin McBride, Mike Tyson tried different ways to inflict damage on the Monaghan big

Not quite as tense, emotional or indeed joyous as watching it first time round, but still special nonetheless. This week

Katie Taylor’s nailbiting win over Sofya Ochigava at London 2012 features in Thursday’s edition of Sport Classics on RTE 2

By Bernard O’Neill It appears to be generally accepted that Gentleman John McNally wrote Irish boxing into the history books