Christy Joyce and Chris Mullally got Ireland off to a winning start at the AIBA World Junior Championships in Yerevan, Armenia today.
Joyce dominated home favourite Arayik Harutyunyan of Armenia en route to a 7-5 win  and will now face Russian featherweight Dmitry Kulakov on Tuesday.
Mullally will also be in action Tuesday versus Ihsan Erdogan of Turkey - despite being felled by Georgian light welter Ciga Gignuri in the second round today.
However, the Ryston clubman, who  was 5-4 up at that stage, got back off the floor to blitz Gignuri in the third frame, winning out 13-6.
Cork flyweight Roy O'Carroll will be the only Irish boxer in action tomorrow, versus Cuba's Carrazana Ramirez.

 Results:

 May 24th (Preliminary - last 32)

57Kg: Christy Joyce (Ireland) beat Arayik Harutyunyan (Armenia) 7-5
63Kg: Chris Mullally (Ireland) beat Ciga Gignuri (Georgia) 13-6
May 25th (Last 16)
52Kg: Roy O'Carroll (Ireland) v Carrazana Ramirez (Cuba)
May 26th (Last 16)
54Kg: Ryan McKeown (Ireland) v Belzhan Amantayev (Kazakhstan)
57Kg: Christy Joyce (Ireland) v Dmitry Kulakov (Russia)
63Kg: Chris Mullally (Ireland) v Ihsan Erdogan (Turkey)
66Kg: Michael Reilly (Ireland) v Manuel Osorio (Puerto Rico)
70Kg: Joe Ward (Ireland) v Denis Rybak (Kazakhstan)