An 8 strong team has been named to contest the 2025 IBA Women's World Championships. The team includes 5 Paris Olympians, a 2022 World Champion, European U23 silver medalist and a Women's Six Nations Championship competitior. Boxing begins on Sunday. More here⬇️ iaba.ie/team-ireland-womens-…

There was a full house at today’s IABA “Fueling Success” nutrition conference. The event, hosted by IABA’s Women in Sport Lead Sophie Doolan and MC’d by Paris Olympian @GrainneWalshBox included a panel discussion with Paris Olympians Jennifer Lehane and Daina Moorehouse. They discussed their weight-making journeys from their earliest bouts and how these have changed as each boxer has progressed through her career, how they approach fuelling for training and fuelling for fighting; recovery foods, weight maintenance and taking time off from that. They also discussed how weight fluctuates at different stages of the menstrual cycle, and how they approach this – and how can parents/coaches best support younger athletes. The panel was followed by a keynote presentation by @madigan_sharon Sharon has worked with Boxing High Performance for 20 years – she is the Head of Performance Nutrition at the Institute of Sport, and was Team Ireland’s Head of Sport Science at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Sharon’s presentation included the effects of under-fuelling on performance and overall health on male and female athletes, the importance of carbohydrates to support training and competing, the impact of the menstrual cycle on female athlete nutrition, and also key nutrition markers for athletes aged 6-11, 11-14, 15-18 and 19 to 21, in line with physical development and maturity. Boxers, coaches and parents were welcome at today’s event. Clubs including Dealgan (Louth), Arbour Hill (Dublin), St. Monica’s (Newry), CBS (Wexford), Dublin City University Athletic Boxing Club, Four Kings (Wicklow), Lucan (Dublin), Santry (Dublin), Smithfield (Dublin), Monivea (Galway), Cherry Orchard (Dublin) and Crumlin (Dublin) attended today’s conference. 📸 Sean Ryan iaba.ie/full-house-at-fuelin…

Paris Olympian @GrainneWalshBox will MC "Fuelling for Success", a conference focusing on nutrition on Sunday, January 26th. Grainne will host a panel discussion with boxers including Paris Olympians @DainaMoorehouse Enniskerry Boxing Club and Jenny Lehane of DCU Athletic Boxing Club. This will be followed by a presentation on key nutrition points by @madigan_sharon Head of Performance Nutrition at Sport Ireland Institute – Sharon has worked with boxing for 20 years, through 5 Olympic Games, and numerous World and European campaigns. Register here: shout.com/s/imRYFHdI More here iaba.ie/register-now-fuellin…

Our largest @TeamIreland Boxing team since Rome 1960 🥊 #TeamIreland is the only NOC in Europe to have qualified a full team of women, an incredible achievement given #Paris2024 is only the 4th Olympic cycle in which women may box. We're SO proud of this remarkable team.💚

These incredible images of a red letter day in Irish boxing were captured by non other than Joe Walsh, brother of newly #Paris2024 qualified @GrainneWalshBox 🥊📸

The IABA has named the team team to contest the 1st Olympic World Qualifier HPD, @PattyFblp says "After a testing 6-month evaluation process these 8 athletes have thoroughly earned selection for the first World Olympic Qualifying tournament" iaba.ie/team-announcement-1s…