{"id":392380,"date":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392380\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:52:07","slug":"harrington-set-to-begin-bid-for-12th-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392380\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrington set to begin bid for 12th national title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kellie Harrington will be part of the field when the 2026 National Elite Championships begin on Friday at the National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Double Olympic champion Harrington, Paris Olympians Daina Moorehouse, Jenny Lehane, Michaela Walsh, Jude Gallagher, Dean Clancy and Jack Marley \u2013 alongside Olympian and 2025 World champ Aoife O&#8217;Rourke, Paris Olympian and 2025 World bronze medalist Grainne Walsh, and 2025 World bronze medalist Patsy Joyce \u2013 will all be part of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-finals start on Friday evening with semi-final boxing beginning on Saturday at 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>More semi-finals will be held on Friday 16 January with all finals taking place on 17 January.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington will face Tramore&#8217;s Zara Breslin in the 60kg semi-finals in the seventh fight of Saturday&#8217;s schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Dubliner began her comeback from retirment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/boxing\/2025\/1202\/1546973-harrington-makes-ring-return-with-exhibition-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with an exhibition bout against the Netherlands&#8217; Chelsey Heijnen<\/a> at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old called time on her career following the 2024 Paris Games but announced her intention to return over a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Harrington has won 11 Elite National Championships previously.<\/p>\n<p>There are 75 boxers from 17 counties scheduled to compete in this year&#8217;s championships.<\/p>\n<p>There are two champions already due to by walkover; Emma Keating of Paulstown BC from Kilkenny at 80kg and Cliona D\u2019Arcy of Tobar Pheadair BC in Galway at 80+kg due to a lack of opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Among those in action in Friday\u2019s opening night are Olympian Gallagher and 2024 European champion Shannon Sweeney of St Anne\u2019s BC Mayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kellie Harrington will be part of the field when the 2026 National Elite Championships begin on Friday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-392380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}