Seventeen nations including Ireland have been confirmed for the European Union Boxing Championships which take place at the National Stadium in Dublin this June.
Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Scotland, Spain, Turkey and Ireland will be competing.
Dr Ching Kuo-Wu, who was elected president of the AIBA last year, will attend the prestigious event.
Neilstown light heavyweight Ken Egan, who won gold at this level in Italy in 2005 and bronze in Hungary in 2006, will be targeting his third medal on the trot at the championships which take place between 17-25 June.
Middleweight Andy Lee, who represented Ireland at the 2004 Olympics, is the only other Irish boxer to win a medal at the EU Championships claiming silver in Madrid in 2004.
Meanwhile, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA), has named an eight-man squad for the upcoming double header of international meetings with Russia in Dublin and Athlone.
Both nations meet at the National Stadium in Dublin on 27 April and at the Athlone Institute of Technology on 29 April.
The Russians have announced a nine-man squad while Irish senior heavyweight champ Ian Tims could be included on the Irish panel to match up the 81Kg category.
Irish Squad: 57Kg: Eric Donovan (St Michael's Athy), 60Kg: Ross Hickey (Grangecon), 60Kg: Carl Crawley (Glasnevin), 64Kg: Eamon Tuohy (Moate), 69Kg: Fergal Redmond (Arklow), 75Kg: Edward Healy (Portlaoise), 81Kg: To Be Announced, 91Kg: John Sweeney (Dungloe), 91Kg+ Martin Sweeney (Drimnagh).
Russian Squad: 57Kg: Kirill Glumov, 60Kg: Ivan Elizarov, 60Kg: Umit Aleskin, 64Kg: Gennady Rybalko, 69Kg: Evegeniy Kochurov, 75Kg: Vasily Pugachev, 81Kg: Boris Proklin, 91Kg: Sairan Smailov, 91+Kg: Andrey Kudlay.
