Prize money a major boost for Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke

Olympic bronze medal winner, his sister Michaela and Aoife O’Rourke are all currently on podium funding of €40,000.

Lisa O’Rourke during her Women’s light middleweight World Boxing Championships final. Photograph: Aleksandar Djorovic/Inpho “I felt in the second round that my strategy worked and I knew that I could make it. I don’t remember what my coach Zaur Antia told me in the second break but I gave it everything in the third.”O’Rourke, who must now decide how her county football with Roscommon GAA fits into a fulltime boxing career, if that is even possible. Her response to becoming world champion at 20 years-old was one of surprise.this March, but this is something unexpected for me,” she said.

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