Classic Irish Boxing - Irish Boxing

‘Sleeping draught’: Michael Lacey, the forgotten contender

By Cian Manning Michael Lacey was born at Grady’s Yard, Johnstown in Waterford City on the 21st June 1913. Named

He debuts off the beaten boxing track in Poland, but Tiernan Bradley is planning a performance worthy of the brightest

It’s been called ‘the greatest female fight of all time’. Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon served up 10 rounds

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

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