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Irish Boxing’s Amazing Olympic Medal Record

Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 29 Olympic Games. Irish boxing boasts seventeen medal

Tyrone McKenna goes into one of the most eagerly anticipated Belfast derbies paying tribute to an Irish boxing legend who

Excitement has been brewing at a steady pace since it was confirmed Tyrone McKenna and Lewis Crocker will fight at

Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 29 Olympic Games. Before Tokyo Irish boxing boasted

Boxing accounts for more than half the medals Ireland have won across 28 Olympic Games. Fifteen fighters, sixthteen Olympic medals,

2011: John Joe Nevin scored a 19:17 win over Uzbek Orzubek Shayimov to become the first Irishman to win two

2012: Mick Conlan won a brilliant bronze at the London Olympics. The Belfast flyweight defeated Frenchman Nordine Oubaali (22-18) in

1980: Belfast flyweight Hugh Russell defeated North Korean Ryon-Sik Yo on a 3-2 split decision to guarantee himself bronze at

By Bernard O’Neill – IABA Press Officer Hughie Russell wrote another illustrious page in the history of Irish boxing at