Waterford’s Lynne McEnery to make history in Paris
Lynne McEnery (middle of the back row) with the rest of the Irish boxing team and coaches ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Waterford woman Lynne McEnery is poised to make history at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She will become #TeamIreland’s first ever woman Olympic boxing coach when the competition gets underway on July 27.
In January of this year, Lynne became the inaugural female boxing High Performance staff coach, working daily with boxers preparing for, at that time, qualification for the Olympic Games. She was a key coach at the second Olympic World Qualifier in Bangkok, where four more boxers qualified for Paris.
Since joining the IABA’s High Performance Unit, first as a member of the Paris Pool Coach Programme and then as staff, Lynne has coached at the prestigious Strandja Memorial Tournament, at the 2024 European Championships and at three multi-nations training camps hosted by IABA – with Ukraine, Spain, Turkey and France.
Lynne, a former Elite international boxer in her own right, is a proud member of Waterford’s St. Paul’s BC. She contested for club and country at two Women’s European Championships (2011 – Netherlands and 2013 – Hungary).
The Irish boxing team for the Paris is:
50kg Daina Moorehouse (Enniskerry BC, Wicklow) 54kg Jennifer Lehane (DCU BC, Ashbourne Co. Meath) 57kg Michaela Walsh (Holy Family GG, Belfast) 60kg Kellie Harrington (St. Mary’s BC Tallaght, Dublin; defending champion) 66kg Grainne Walsh (Tullamore; member of Dublin club St. Mary’s, Tallaght) 75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Castlrea BC, Roscommon) 57kg Jude Gallagher (Two Castles Olympic BC, Tyrone) 63.5kg Dean Clancy (Sean McDermott BC, Sligo) 71kg Aidan Walsh (Holy Family GG, Belfast) 92kg Jack Marley (Monkstown BC, Dublin).
Head Coach, Zauri Antia (Bray)
Coach James Doyle (Dublin)
Coach Lynne McEnery (St. Paul’s BC, Waterford)
High Performance Director, Tricia Heberle
Chef de Mission, Gavin Noble.
