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David Oliver Joyce and Brendan Irvine now face box-offs to book Olympic qualification

The pair lost their respective semi-finals.

IT HAS NOT been a great day for Irish boxing.

Earlier, Katie Taylor was stunned by Yana Alekseevna of Azerbaijan.  The Bray boxer must now compete at the World Championships in Astana to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games.

Two of Taylor’s teammates have also been beaten at the semi-final stage this afternoon.

Brendan Irvine could not get past Narek Abgaryan of Armenia and now faces a box-off at the European Olympics Qualifiers if he’s to stamp his ticket to Rio.

The 19-year-old will take on Bulgarian Daniel Asenov in tomorrow’s box-off.

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David Oliver Joyce will have to navigate a similar route to Olympic qualification.

Joyce lost on unanimous decision to Welsh fighter Joseph Cordina in the 60kg semi-final.

The St Michael’s Athy man will face Volkan Gockek tomorrow for a spot in Brazil.

 

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    Oct 5th 2014, 1:29 PM

    Going for a Chelsea win here.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:40 PM

    Good god I should bet on these 5/7 right so far this season.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 1:28 PM

    And now for the main event

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:04 PM

    Actually this is the warm up for the real main event… West Ham vs QPR.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:12 PM

    The incident is flares being set off by arsenal fans, stewards now checking fans coming in to the ground.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:21 PM

    Must have taken a leaf out of Galatasaray’s book, I’d say. Not a smart thing to do.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:11 PM

    Terrible performance by arsenal , no shot on target, ridiculous playing Ozil out wide, too easy for Chelsea

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:39 PM

    All the idiots in the photo taking selfies…

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:01 PM

    Great to see Costa end his recent goal drought.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 3:40 PM

    Horrible tackle by Cahill. He is lucky he didn’t do some serious damage to Sanchez.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 1:36 PM

    COYG

    Do it for Piers Morgan

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    Oct 5th 2014, 1:53 PM

    Full kit w*nker.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:33 PM

    Arsenal were rubbish and Chelsea were fab…

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:37 PM

    Great analyst Jack.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:56 PM

    Arsenal were let down by their final ball and by Ozil in particular. Was a real derby game. Both sides were were lucky to finish with 11 men. The goals came from two moments of magic, only one of which Chelsea were capable of producing last year.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 5:02 PM

    Can’t fault Jack for accuracy there…
    Let’s green thumb it to comment of the week…

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:17 PM

    Arsenal will definitely do better than last year,
    need to draw at least as 9 points behind will
    be too much to chase.Arsenal need ideally to
    win.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:09 PM

    Arsenal > Chelsea > Liverpool > United

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:12 PM

    There’s 16 other teams between Liverpool and United

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    Oct 5th 2014, 3:25 PM

    Jose record against Utd, arsenal, city and Liverpool: played 32, lost 3. You should probably have another go at that.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 4:15 PM

    I think that should go;

    Chelsea> Man City> Southampton> Man Utd……..and if you could be arsed typing it all out you’ll eventually get to Asenal> Liverpool.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:06 PM

    Not sure how to feel about Fabregas.

    I love and hate him all at once

    Suppose its not his fault that Wenger didn’t sign him, apparently cesc wanted it to happen

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:54 PM

    Why do you hate Fabregas?

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    Oct 5th 2014, 3:17 PM

    Because he left Barcelona

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    Oct 5th 2014, 3:58 PM

    Diego de man.

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    Oct 5th 2014, 2:53 PM

    Why do you hate him???

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