Sligo boxer Dean Clancy will have plenty of boxing company on the Ireland Olympic team in Paris this July and August.
Ireland is sending its largest compliment of boxers to an Olympics since Rome in 1960 - with 10 fighters qualified in total following last weekend's final Olympic qualifier in Bangkok.
Four of the seven-strong team sent to the final qualification tournament left with tickets to Paris in their suitcases.
Daina Moorehouse, Jennifer Lehane, Grainne Walsh and Aidan Walsh joined Kellie Harrington, Aoife O’Rourke, Micheala Walsh, Dean Clancy, Jack Marley and Jude Gallagher on the list of Irish boxers qualified to represent their country at the Paris Games.
Clancy, who trains out of the Sean McDermott boxing gym in Manorhamilton, was one of the first Irish boxers to secure his Olympic place when winning bronze for Ireland in the light-welterweight division at the European Games in 2023.
The 10-strong Ireland team for Paris will comprise six female boxers and four male competitors.
The victories of Moorehouse, Lehane and Walsh mean Ireland will have a female fighter in each weight division at the Olympics for the first time.
Ireland's Olympic boxing team for Paris
Kellie Harrington
Aoife O'Rourke
Micheala Walsh
Grainne Walsh
Jennifer Lehane
Daina Moorhouse
Dean Clancy
Jack Marley
Jude Gallagher
Aidan Walsh.
The Olympic Games run from July 26th to August 11th.
