by Tomas Geraghty | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ciara Sheedy will join the Irish Ladies boxing squad at the National Stadium in Dublin tomorrow morning. The squad begins training in the morning ahead of the up-and-coming European Championships in Hungary. The club wishes Ciara the best and hopes that all going well...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Swinford Boxing Club will be collecting at the church gates this weekend, in an effort to raise much needed funds. By it’s very nature with sucess comes added expense, so please give what you can this weekend, to a worthy cause.
by Tomas Geraghty | May 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Friday night training has finished for the 2012/2013 season. Training will continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the regular times.
by Tomas Geraghty | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
With the last load of scrap metal gone from the yard, the club can reflect on a successful fundraiser at the Conway Gym & Fitness Centre. On Friday 10th May the action began with a early morning meet in the gym. With collections decided and directions in hand...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
You know the analogy…you wait for ages for a bus, then two come along, well after two years of painstaking work, Ciara Sheedy struck gold three weeks ago in the National Youths Championships, and yesterday she made it a double at the Natoinal Senior Cadet...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ciara Sheedy will be in action at boxing headquarters again this weekend, as she goes in search of a National Cadet title to add to her Youth title earlier in the month. Weigh-in is tomorrow morning from 11am – 12noon with the first session of boxing due to...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Mayo Ladies Boxing team defeated Donegal on Sunday afternoon in a closely contested inter-county. The three and a half hour journey by team coach to Carndonagh had no negative effect on the Mayo ladies, as each and every boxer set a standard that would grace any...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
VERSUS Galway v’s Mayo in the Connacht Football championship isn’t the only big inter county of the weekend of Mayo interest. Spirits are high this morning as the Mayo ladies team travels to take on the might of Donegal. The long journey to the tip of...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
There was no luck in Dublin yesterday for Aoife Hennigan. Aoife dropped a close contest to European Bronze medalist Sally Carrig of Ennis. In a contest where it was hard to see where Carrig was getting some of her scores from and how Aoife wasn’t scoring more,...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
This weekend sees Aoife Hennigan set out on the journey to defend the U18 National title which she won last year. Having come through rehabilitation after injury in last year’s European Championships in Poland, Aoife made her comeback last october for Ireland in...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday saw six Swinford Boxing Club stars of the future take to the ring in Westport. In Westport’s first all-female show, sister duos Grace and Molly Rowley and Erin and Serena McHugh togged out alongside Danielle Brennan and Amanda Walsh. In her debut...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
We want your old clothes! Your old belts, handbags and shoes too… As part of our Monster weekend of fundraising we will be taking unwanted clothes off people’s hands. Just bring them along to the Conway Gym & Fitness Centre this Friday, Saturday or...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Monster weekend of fundraising is next on the busy Swinford Boxing Club agenda. As with any club with success comes expense, and in a bid to keep that success coming…. the club need your scrap to bring titles back! If you have any scrap metal lying around your...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ciara Sheedy and Aoife Hennigan have been selected on a 12 strong team for the Donegal v’s Mayo intercounty, in Donegal on Sunday May 19th. Ciara will meet Rosemary Doherty, Irish Youths Champion and Intermediate Finalist from the Carndonagh Club, and...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fresh from her success at the National Championships, Ciara Sheedy arrived home to Swinford last evening to a joyous reception. Crowds from the community of Swinford and surrounds turned out to greet Swinford Boxing Club’s 15th National champion. A large bonfire...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
It was medals all round at the Gaelic Gloves Invitational in Kildare yesterday. With the high standard of entries and of boxing in this competition, the club could not have imagined all our boxers medalling. Based out of Ashford House Kilcock for the weekend,...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
After the highs of last evening and with Ciara Sheedy taking a well earned rest the pressure turned towards our representatives in the Gaelic Gloves Invitational in Leixlip county Kildare. We are happy to report that a sucessful days boxing has guaranteed all of...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
No matter what happens from here, it will now go down in the history books that on the 4th day of May in the year 2013, Ciara Sheedy of the Swinford Amateur Boxing Club in county Mayo, was crowned Ladies boxing Champion of Ireland, and boy did she do it in...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ciara Sheedy made her weight comfortably this morning at the weigh in, ahead of this evening’s Irish final at the National Stadium. All in good form here in Dublin, and looking forward to this evening, but ssshhh…. Ciara has just got her head down to...
by Tomas Geraghty | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
The hour is drawing closer. Tomorrow morning at 9am Ciara Sheedy will weigh in ahead of the National Ladies Boxing Finals, at boxing Headquarters on the South Circular road, Dublin. After final preparations and a quick weigh in tonight at the Conway Gym & Fitness...
