(SEPT 21) Katie Taylor and the Irish team are due to arrive home via Budapest (Malev airlines) through Dublin Airport tonight (Monday, September 21st) at 9pm.  All media are invited to attend this evenings homecoming.

Taylor set a new standard for international amateur boxing on Sunday last when she claimed her 4th European title on the trot without conceding a single point in Nikolaev City, Ukraine.

In her three bouts to lightweight gold, Taylor, the current AIBA World champion and AIBA 2008 World female boxer of the year, scored 23 points.

Dublin middleweight Sinead Kavanagh also impressed, only losing out by a single point in the preliminary rounds of her first major international tournament.

Russia dominated the Championships, taking home four gold and one silver.

Russian featherweight Sofia Ochigava received the boxer of the tournament award.

European Women's Championships September 14th/21st

September 16th (Last 16)
75Kg: Sinead Kavanagh (Ireland) lost to Lidia Fidura (Poland) 2-3

September 17th (Q/Final)
60Kg: Katie Taylor (Ireland) beat Kosovare Buzuku (Sweden) RSC(Round 1)
(RSC = ref stops contest - Taylor was 4-0 up)

September 18th (S/Final)
60Kg: Katie Taylor (Ireland) beat Denica Eliseeva (Bulgaria) 8-0

September 20th (Final)
60Kg: Katie Taylor (Ireland) beat Meryem Aslan Zeybek (Turkey) 11-0

Irish Squad & Management

60Kg: Katie Taylor (Bray BC)
75Kg: Sinead Kavanagh (Drimnagh BC)
Coaches: Peter Taylor & Pat Ryan
Team Manager: Sadie Duffy
Physio: Molly Ryan
R&J: Al Morris

Full Results
46kg: Gnevanova Svetlana (Russia) Natalie Vesenne -Lungo ( --) 5-2

48Kg:Jenny Hardings (Sweden) beat Elena Savelyena (Russia) +2-2 c/b

51Kg: Tetyana Kob (Ukraine) beat Shipra Nillsson (Sweden) 4-2

54Kg:Karolina Michalzczuk (Poland) beat Ivanna Krupenia (Ukraine) 8-3

57Kg: Sofia Ochigava (Russia) beat Julia Tsyplakova (Ukraine) 14-0

60Kg: Katie Taylor (Ireland) beat Meryem Aslan Zeybek (Turkey) 11-0

64Kg:Tatar Gulsum (Turkey) beat Farida El Hadrati (France) 6-2

69Kg:Lotte Lien (Norway) beat Katarzyna Furmaniak (Poland) 5-0

75Kg: Irina Sinetskaya (Russia) beat Liliya Durnyeva (Ukraine) 8-3

81Kg:Luminita (Romania) beat I Yagci (Turkey) 2-1

+81Kg: Nadezhda Torlopova (Russia) beat Semsi Yarali (Turkey) RET3