{"id":418960,"date":"2026-01-19T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418960\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:37:19","slug":"kellie-harrington-two-time-olympic-champion-wins-12th-irish-elite-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/418960\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellie Harrington: Two-time Olympic champion wins 12th Irish Elite title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Olympic champion Kellie Harrington claimed her 12th Irish Elite with victory over Kellie McLoughlin at the National Stadium in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old, who came out of retirement last year, earned a unanimous decision win over the defending lightweight champion McLoughlin in the 60kg bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belfast&#8217;s Michaela Walsh collected a record 14th Irish Elite title with a comfortable victory against Sarah Cunningham in the lightweight decider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another of Northern Ireland&#8217;s 2022 Commonwealth Games winners in Jude Gallagher claimed a 3-2 split decision win in the featherweight final against Adam Hession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ulster Elite champion Caitlin Fryers suffered a split decision defeat against Paris Olympian Daina Moorehouse, who she also lost to in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patsy Joyce beat 2025 flyweight champion Clepson dos Santos in the 55kg title fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olympian Jack Marley took home the heavyweight title with a win over North Down&#8217;s Garyn McAllister in the final, while Gilford super-heavyweight Willie John McCartan was awarded a walkover as Martin McDonagh was unable to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reigning world middleweight champion Aoife O&#8217;Rourke successfully defended her 65kg title against Shauna Kearney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Olympic champion Kellie Harrington claimed her 12th Irish Elite with victory over Kellie McLoughlin at the National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-418960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418960","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=418960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}