Lisa and Aoife O’Rourke both won through to semi-finals at the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria to guarantee a further two medals for Team Ireland.
Current world middleweight champion Aoife was a 3-2 victor over Poland’s Agata Kaczmarska in a tough battle.
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The 29-year-old from Castlerea, County Roscommon sealed a fifth confederation-level medal as she edged home after three all-action rounds against the reigning 80+kg world champion.
Heading into the final frame, two judges had her two round up with two seeing it the opposite way, but O’Rourke did enough to earn the nod of the fifth judge in the final round which was the…
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