Ireland secured a moral boosting victory ahead of this months European Union Cadet Championships and European Cadet Championships in Italy and Hungary after they won out the Four Nation Round Robin Cadet Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin today.
At the end of three days intense boxing featuring sixty one bouts, Ireland finished on top with fifty points. Germany took the runners up spot with thirty six points, and Lithuania and Sweden shared third spot with twenty points each.
Simon Lennon got Ireland off to a flying start in their head-to-head with Lithuania this morning with a first round stoppage of Justas Shalkauskas, but
Bernie McDonagh was always playing catch up against Meinardas Smikas and lost out by an eight point margin.
Alan Phelan had to pull out of the third bout of the morning session because of injury allowing the visitors to edge into a 2-1 lead, but Charlie Haggerty chalked up his second impressive victory of the weekend to restore parity against the Lithuanians.
Featherweight Des Fahy then put in a good solid performance to beat Mantas Barauskas and Patrick Harkin recorded his second victory in 24 hours
after a stopping Arunas Bagdanavichous in round two.
Lightweight David Joe Joyce tagged Andrei Palaima with a brilliant right hook in the second and followed that up with a left jab to secure a
15 point rule second round stoppage and Jason Quigley received a walkover to leave Ireland 6-2 up against the Lithuanians.
Conrad Cummins was next up and he stopped Andrei Lukashevich in round two and Bernard Roe ensured that Ireland won the clash
versus the Lithuanians 8-2 with the hosts fifth inside the distance win following a 15 point rule round stoppage of Vytautas Jankauskas.
Liam McGuinness and Germanys Tom Tran were involved in a very exciting strawweight contest which the Irish teenager won after three high tempo rounds, but Paul Hyland was beaten in a close contest with Arthur Bril.
Ruari Dalton was behind by two points at the end of rounds one and two against Tyron Zeuge and the German teenager also took the last round
despite a spirited showing from Dalton.
Michel Ward was the last Irish boxer involved in the tournament and he was beaten by Viktor Matern. Ward was only having his second international contest today while Matern was representing his country for the 79th time.
After the tournament each nation was presented with medals and plaques to mark their participation in what the President of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association, Dominic O'Rourke described as a top class tournament featuring some of Europe's best underage boxers.
He said: "Congratulations to all the international teams on a top class tournament and for their superb sportsmanship throughout the three days.
I would also like to thank all the officials, referees and judges for their efforts this weekend."
The Irish team were under team managers Paddy Osborn and Bill Stacey and coaches Jim Moore and Tony Davitt at the National Stadium.
Ireland will compete in the first ever European Union Cadet Championships in Porto Tores, Sardinia Italy from June 10th to 16th, and then send a team to the European Cadet Championships in Siofok Hungary from June 23rd to 30th.
48Kg: Peter Brady (Poleglass), 52Kg: Paul Hyland (Gleann), 54Kg: Ruari Dalton (St Johns) 57Kg: Dessie Fahy (Clonmel) 63Kg: David Joe Joyce)
will represent Ireland at the European Union Championships.
Irish selectors will announce their squad for European Championships shortly.
Boxing fans can purchase DVDs of the weekends entire Round Robin tournament. For further information contact the National Stadium on (01) 4533371
2007 International Round Robin Cadet Championships Results
Results: Sunday June 3rd (11am)
46Kg: Simon Lennon (Ireland) beat Justas Shalkauskas (Lithuania) RSC1
48Kg: Bernie McDonagh (Ireland) lost to Meinardas Smikas (Lithuania) 10-18
50Kg: Alan Phelan (Ireland) lost to Evaldas Petraukas (Lithuania) W/O
52Kg: Charlie Haggerty (Ireland) beat Mantas Barauskas (Lithuania) 19-2
57Kg: Des Fahy (Ireland) beat Evaldas Korsakas (Lithuania) 14-7
60Kg: Patrick Harkin (Ireland) beat Arunas Bagdanavichius (Lithuania) RSC2
63Kg: Jason Quigley (Ireland) beat Maksim Kuzmenko (Lithuania) W/O
63Kg: David Joe Joyce (Ireland) beat Andrius Palaima (Lithuania) RSCOS2
66Kg: Conrad Cummins (Ireland) beat Andrej Lukashevich (Lithuania) RSC2
70Kg: Bernard Roe (Ireland) beat Vytautas Jankauskas (Lithuania) RSCOS2
46Kg: Tom Tran (Germany) lost to Liam McGuinness (Ireland) 14-16
50Kg: Deiter Geier (Germany) beat Daniel Gustavsson (Sweden) 15-8
52Kg: Artur Bril (Germany) beat Paul Hyland (Ireland) 15-10
54Kg: Tyron Zeuge (Germany) beat Ruari Dalton (Ireland) 10-6
57Kg: David Wolter (Germany) lost to Clarence Goyeram (Sweden) 9-16
60Kg: Patrick Woicicki (Germany) beat Anthony Iggy (Sweden) 15-1
63Kg: Jacub Dolu (Germany) beat Eric Nzouv (Sweden) 16-2
66Kg: Viktor Matern (Germany) beat Michael Ward (Ireland) 21-4
70Kg: Albert Becker (Germany) beat Djamal Mahmoudov (Sweden) 16-14
80Kg: Sahin Burak (Germany) lost to Pezhman Seifkhanihassankiade (Sweden) 6-25
Results: Saturday June 2nd (6pm)
50Kg:Sean Davis (Ireland) beat Daniel Gustavasson (Sweden) 16-7
57Kg: Des Fahy (Ireland) lost to Clarence Goveran (Sweden) 13-20
60Kg: Patrick Harkin (Ireland) beat Anthony Iggy (Sweden) 9-7
63Kg: David Joe Joyce (Ireland) beat Eric Nzovu (Sweden) 21-4
70Kg: Bernard Roe (Ireland) lost to Djamal Mohmoudov (Sweden) 12-18
80Kg: Alan Delmar (Ireland) lost to Pehzman Seifkhanihassankiade (Sweden) 8-14
46Kg: Justas Shalkauskas (Lithuania) lost to Neil Walker (Ireland) RET3
46Kg: Simon Lennon (Ireland) lost to Tom Tran (Germany) 8-23
48Kg: Meinardas Smikas (Lithuania) beat Peter Brady (Ireland) RSC1
50Kg: Evaldas Petrauskas (Lithuania) beat Dieter Geier (Germany) 9-0
52Kg: Mantas Barauskas (Lithuania) beat Artur Bril (Germany) 18-12
54Kg:Jamie Kennedy (Ireland) lost to Tryon Zeuge (Germany) 8-16
75Kg: Evaldas Korsakas (Lithuania) beat David Wolter (Germany) 22-10
60Kg: Aranus Bagdanavichius (Lithuania) lost to Patrick Wolcicki (Germany) RSC1
63Kg: Maksim Kuzmenko (Lithuania) lost to Jacub Dolu (Germany) RSC3
63Kg: Andrius Palaima (Lithuania) lost to Larry Fryers (Ireland) 4-26
66Kg: Andrei Lukashevich (Lithuania) lost to Viktor Matern (Germany) 7-10
70Kg: Vytauatas Jankauskas (Lithuania) beat Dominic Harkin (Ireland) RSC1
75Kg: Tommy McCarthy (Ireland) beat Kenan Bajrami (Germany) 21-10
Results: Friday June 1st (6pm)
46Kg: Neil Walker (Ireland) beat Tom Tran (Germany) 15-7
50Kg: Alan Phelan (Ireland) lost to Dieter Geier (Germany) 8-9
53Kg: Charlie Haggerty (Ireland) beat Artur Bril (Germany) 16-8
54Kg: Stephen Kilroy (Ireland) lost to Tyron Zuege (Germany) 5-16
57Kg: Des Fahy (Ireland) lost to David Wolter (Germany) 14-16
60Kg: Patrick Harkin (Ireland) lost to Patrick Wolcicki (Germany) 9-15
63Kg: David Joe Joyce (Ireland) beat Jacub Dolu (Germany) 8-7
66Kg: Conrad Cummings(Ireland) lost to Viktor Matern (Germany) 14-14 (C/B 27-30)
70Kg: Bernard Roe (Ireland) beat Albert Becker (Germany) 13-6
75Kg: Thomas McDonagh (Ireland) lost to Kenan Bajrami (Germany) 7-13
80Kg: Alan Delmar (Ireland) beat Sahin Burak (Germany) 17-2
46Kg: Justas Shalkauskas (Lithuania) lost to Liam McGuinness (Ireland) 13-28.
48Kg: Meinardas Smikas (Lithuania) lost to Bernie McDonagh (Ireland) 8-10
50Kg: Evaldos Petrauskas (Lithuania) beat Daniel Gustavsson (Sweden) 23-4
52Kg: Manus Barauskas (Lithuania) beat Paul Hyland (Ireland) 7-5
57Kg: Evaldas Korsakas (Lithuania) lost to Ciarance Goyeram (Sweden) 10-23
60Kg: Arunas Bagdanavichius (Lithuania) lost to Anthony Iggy (Sweden) 11-14
63Kg: Maksim Kuzmenko (Lithuania) beat Eric Nzovu (Sweden) 12-7
63Kg: Aandrius Palaima (Lithuania) lost to Jason Quigley (Ireland) 6-24
66Kg: Andrei Lukashevich (Lithuania) lost to Michael Ward (Ireland) 9-10
70Kg: Vytautas Jankauskas (Lithuania) lost to Djamal Mahmoudov (Sweden) RSC2
75Kg: Thomas McCarthy (Ireland) beat Pezhman Seifkhanihassankiade (Sweden) 10-5
Irish squad by club: Neil Walker (Dockers) Simon Lennon (Sacred Heart) Liam McGuinness (Dockers) Bernie McDonagh (St Pauls Waterford)
Peter Brady (Poleglass) Sean Davis (Holy Family Drogheda) Ruari Dalton (St Johns Belfast) Jamie Kennedy (Toome) Stephen Kilroy (Holy Family Drogheda)Charlie Haggerty (Golden Gloves) Sean Duffy (Keady) Dessie Fahy (Clonmel) Patrick Harkin (St Brigids) David Joe Joyce (St Michael's Athy)
Larry Fryers (Clonoe) Jason Quigley (Finn Valley) Conrad Cummins (Clonoe) Michael Ward (St Pauls) Bernard Roe (Dublin Docklands)
Dominic Harkin (St Brigids) Tommy McCarthy (Oliver Plunketts) Paddy McDonagh (Brosna) Dominic Galaggher (Saints) Alan Delmar (Golden Cobra)
Bernard O'Neill
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