Katie Taylor, World, European and European Union lightweight champion,looking to claim the one honour she doesn't have

Thursday, 04 February 2010 00:00

Katie Taylor, the current World, European and European Union lightweight champion, will have the opportunity to claim the one honour she doesn't have - an Irish senior title at the Irish Senior Elite Boxing Championships.

Ireland's top female boxers will enter the Senior Championships for the first time this year. 

The finals of the 2010 National Elite Senior Championships will be held over two nights on Friday and Saturday March 5th and 6th 2010.The opening bell for the 2010 Elite National Senior Championships, the penultimate Championships before the IABA celebrates its 100th birthday in 2011, will be heard on February 19th next at the National Stadium in Dublin.
Some of the top amateur boxers in the world, including Olympic medalists, World, European and European Union champions, will be taking part in the blue ribbon tournament of Irish amateur boxing at IABA headquarters.
Ken Egan, a silver medal winner at the Beijing Olympics, created Irish boxing history last term when he claimed a record breaking ninth Irish senior crown in a row.
The Neilstown man will now be vying to stretch his incredible run into double figures and match Jim O'Sullivan's record of having won ten Irish senior belts between 1980 and 1990.
O'Sullivan, who missed the 1983 finals through injury, won his belts boxing out of the St Patrick's BC in Enniscorthy.
European Youth champion Jason Quigley meanwhile, will be making his senior debut at welterweight.
Quigley, from the Finn Valley club in Donegal,  could meet Beijing Olympian John Joe Joyce, who announced recently that he was moving up to 69kg - where he could face his St Michael's Athy team-mate Roy Sheahan -, a gold medal winner at the 2007 European Union Championships in Dublin
World Youth champ Ray Moylette will also be taking part and could renew acquaintances with Eric Donovan in a repeat of their thrilling duels at the South Circular Road venue.