Classic Irish Boxing Archives - Page 6 of 8

Ireland at the European 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

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

By Bernard O’Neill Irish boxing took home one silver and three bronze from the Melbourne 1956 Olympics. The haul was

The bang was certainly big, but all too brief. Willie ‘Big Bang’ Casey exploded from nowhere onto the pro scene