In the late fifties Christy Kelly was to the forefront of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association at flyweight, which at the time included, John Caldwell, Peter Lavery, and Adam McClean.

Colm had a long and very successful amateur boxing career starting with the St Davids B.C. Kildare, at fifteen years of age.

In a era when Irish Amateur Boxing was at a very high level, Danno Power was one of Irelands top light middleweights in the country.

Eamonn was a very talented welterweight from the Munster area Who represented Ireland many times, and boxed against most of the top Irish boxers.

Fred was an outstanding boxer in the modern era of Irish Amateur boxing. His classic encounters with the equally great Harry Perry are still talked about by those lucky enough to see them.

Like his fellow county man, John Caldwell, Freddie was an outstanding amateur boxer, who made a clean sweep of all National Championships.

Harry is rightfully regarded as one of the greatest amateur boxers to represent Ireland. When we look back at the great contests he had with his old adversary, Fred Teidt, which were able to fill the national stadium .

Harry Taylor was one of the greatest Lightheavyweight boxers to emerge from Ulster boxing in the forties. He won Ulster, and Irish titles ,and represented Ireland on many occasions. His two senior titles were won in 1946 and 1947 .

Chairman of the Glasnevin Boxing club, Jack Gaffney, in his time was one of Irelands top flyweights, and bantamweights in the late fifties, and early sixties.

Jimmy Ingle was the first ever Irish boxer to win a gold medal at the European Boxing Championships, at the National Stadium, in 1939.

Joe Kerry was an outstanding light heavy, and heavyweight, from 1934 to 1944, when these weights were in the main, dominated by Garda and R.U.C. boxers.

In the early forties one of the greatest flyweight boxers to emerge on to the Irish Amateur boxing scene, was the very talented Joe Boy Collins.

The city of Belfast is famous for producing outstanding boxers in the flyweight and, bantamweight division especially, and John Caldwell has lived up to this tradition.

Kieran Joyce is probably one of the greatest boxers to come out of the Cork area for some years.

Malachy Sadlier won the national Junior Championship in 1939 at Middleweight And the Leinster Senior Championship in 1940. In 1941 he won the Middleweight Senior Championship, He repeated this feat in 1942,once again at Middleweight.

Set out hereunder are some details of the career of the legendary Maxie McCullaugh, as taken from the files of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

Ask any of his opponents who was the hardest welterweight in the amateur scene and the reply usually was, Peter Crotty.

Set out hereunder are details of the career of one of the outstanding Irish boxers of the past. Peter won the senior featherweight final in 1939, and was runner up in the featherweight final in 1943

Phil won his first national senior final in 1977 when he beat Jim Carson in the L/Flyweight in 1977. He reached the national senior finals on six occasions, winning four, and losing two

1963 was outstanding season for Sean when he made a clean sweep of every major title at provincial and national level.

Terry Milligan was probably one of the greatest boxers to arrive on the Irish boxing scene in the last fifty years .

As a welterweight boxer Tom Hyde was one of the early pioneers of amateur boxing in the Munster and Cork regions. He represented Ireland At International level on many occasions.

Tony Byrne was without any doubt one of the greatest boxers to come out of County Louth. During his career he crossed swords with some of the worlds finest boxers, at featherweight, and lightweight.

Willie Gifford was one the nations top boxers in the forties. During this period he won three national senior championships, in succession, During his career he had wins over many of the countries top boxers.

Willie was a member of the Arbour Hill B.C. which in the forties, fifties, and sixties produced an extraordinary number of senior champions.