Olympic Boxing Club Galway

03/10/2026

02/10/2026

Sunday week the 11th of October we host our good friends from Mayfield Boxing Club Cork for our first home exhibition show of the new season.

30 competitive exhibition bouts featuring county, provincial and national champions with also Irish representatives.

Doors open 11.30am and starting at 12noon, Come down and show your support and also to our 3 lads heading off to the European U15 Championships.

Not to be missed!

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01/10/2026

Congrats to Olympic BC Galway 3 boxers officially confirmed and selected to represent Ireland at the European U15 Championships in Turkey in 2 weeks time.

It’s always an honour when a boxer from our club represents their country on whatever stage and to see the hard work that these 3 lads and all our members puts in week in and week out is something special.

Congrats lads, best of luck Team Ireland and enjoy the whole experience!

42kg Andrew Nugent
46kg Eddie Ward
54kg Martin Nevin

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The Team Ireland team to contest the 2026 European U15 Championships has been named.

The 25 strong team include national champions, Four Nations medalists, dual nations medalists and international benchmark medalists. Among them is Pa Casey, the 2025 European U15 champion at 44kg, and Best Male Boxer of that tournament. He’s joined by 2025 European U15 bronze medalist, Rosaletta Casey

The Team’s Co-Captains are Pa Casey and Rosaletta Casey. The Vice Co-Captains are Rian Brannigan and Sophie Potter.

The team is led and and managed by Team Manager Stephen Connolly, Ballymore Hollywood BC, Kildare and Aine McLoughlin, Spartans BC, Cork. The team is coached by Paul Simpson, Saviours Crystal BC, Waterford; John Coffey, Sliabh Luachra BC, Kerry; Tommy O’Donnell, Charleville BC, Cork; Maria O’Brien, Ballymun BC, Dublin. Marty O’Neill has been appointed R&J.

The tournament takes place in Trabzon, Türkiye, from October 16th to 27th.

More here: https://boxingireland.ie/ireland-team-to-contest-european-u15-championships-named/

01/10/2026

Busy few days sparring for Olympic BC boxers both at home and away as boxers continue their preparations for the European U15 Championships, Peter O’Donnell box cup and the upcoming season.

Thanks to Portlaoise BC, Olympic BC Mullingar, Ballyhaunis BC Mayo and Santry BC Dublin for hosting our boxers.

Well done lads!

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28/09/2026

Olympic BC boxers came away with 2 Gold and 2 Silvers on finals day of this years CuChulainn box cup in Dundalk over the weekend.

Jordan Myers and Tommy Ward claimed Gold medals while Martin Mongan and Tommy Sweeney both lost out in their respective finals after really good performances.

Rico Sherlock also having a top skills bout getting some valuable rounds for the upcoming season.

Congrats to all our boxers and coaches Eddie Ward and Ernie Myers over the weekend.

Well done Team, Onto the next one!

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26/09/2026

Olympic BC have 6 boxers entered in this year’s CuChulainn Box Cup in Dundalk with boxers boxing today.

Martin Mongan won his semi final bout and is through to tomorrow’s 2014 34kg final.

Patrick Sherlock lost his 2011 66kg semi final after boxing in a great bout and can take a lot of positives from it, Congrats to his opponent cracking contest.

Tommy Sweeney finished up the day with valuable rounds in a very good exhibition bout.

Tomorrow we have 5 lads boxing, Rico Sherlock in a skills bout, Martin Mongan, Jordan Myers, Tommy Sweeney and Tommy Ward all in finals.

Best of luck lads and enjoy, Well done boxers and coaches today!

Cuchulainn International Boxfest

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13/09/2026

Olympic BC Andrew Nugent and Eddie Ward had their second bout in two days today in Scotland with Team Ireland.

Both lads got the win today after coming of the back of two very controversial decisions that went against them yesterday.

Andrew winning on a 5-0 Unanimous decision and Eddie on a 4-1 split decision.

Well done lads top performances, All great preparation for the European U15 Championships next month in Turkey.

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12/09/2026

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Let's go! Team Ireland have arrived in Scotland for a two-day key development international

More here: https://boxingireland.ie/team-ireland-irl-v-sco/

10/09/2026

Olympic BC duo Andrew Nugent and Eddie Ward flys out to Scotland in the morning with Team Ireland for 2 International bouts over the weekend.

Fantastic for both lads to continue to get this international experience and is going away in flying form.

Best of luck lads and Team Ireland, Enjoy the weekend!

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29/08/2026

Olympic BC had 4 coaches attend the fundamentals coaching course today in Castlerea Co Roscommon.

Richard Barrett, Robert Previte, Michael Sweeney and Ed Gannon.

Well done lads!

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First step on the ladder | Congratulations to the 8 newly-minted coaches who took the first steps in the coaching careers today, completing the Fundamentals Coaching Course.

Thanks to Castlerea BC for hosting, and to Coach Developers Dino Dallat and Maeve Clarke