SEVERAL boxers who are expected to make a bid to get into the Irish teams for the next Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000 will be in action in a tournament in the National Stadium tomorrow week. No fewer than eight national junior champions will be in action. Many provincial and county champions as well as beaten junior finalists will also take part.

The junior champions are David and Darren Conlon from Loughglynn, Pat Walsh from Cork, Alo Kelly from Brosna, Thomas Crampton from Dublin, Aodh Carlysle from Dublin, Ian O'Shaughnessy from Belfast and Charlie Nash, son of a famous father, from Derry.

Also in action will be David Sweetinan, the national intermediate champion, Mark Wickham the Leinster champion who was only narrowly defeated by Francis Barrett in the intermediate championships earlier this year, Michael Blaney, the European youth champion of 1994, Connacht champion, Peadar Walsh and the Dublin champion Karl Meehan.

In all 17 contests will be decided from flyweight to light heavyweight. The bill is the first of several which are planned for the winter season by the Central Council of the IABA in a bid to bring back regular Friday night boxing to the National Stadium.