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Caoimhin Connolly and, inset, Sean Doohan have been selected on the Irish team
Caoimhin Connolly and Sean Doohan have been confirmed on a Team Ireland selection of Junior and Youth boxers that will face Scotland next month.
Twin Towns Boxing Club’s Connolly will be the youth 50kgs representative while Dunfanaghy Boxing Club puncher Doohan will box in the junior grade at 80kgs.
Connolly was the Irish Youth 48kgs champion in 2025 when beating Kinsella. He made his debut in an international vest this year having won a gold at the William Wallace Box Cup in Scotland in 2024. Last year, he lost out to Kurt Kinsella in an Irish U19 final while he also fought an amateur exhibition on the Rumble In The Hills, Rising Stars professional card at the Aura Leisure Centre.
Doohan, who missed out on a place at the European U17s, will now don the Irish vest in Glasgow on February 7.
Doohan defeated Martin Collins from Baldoyle BC in Dublin to land the Irish U17 80kgs crown in 2025. Doohan claimed a unanimous victory.
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The Irish team is led and managed by Aine McLoughlin of Spartans BC Cork, and coached by Linda Morgan (Arklow BC Wicklow), Ralph McKay (St. Paul’s BC Antrim) and Garry Kehoe (Marble City BC, Kilkenny).
This is a key development opportunity for underage boxers and is the first international of 2026.
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