Sharon Sweeney has won three consecutive national titles

THE Connaught Telegraph’s Young Sports Stars of the Year 2015 award winners. Number 6: Sharon Sweeney (Boxing)

THE sport of boxing continues to produce some very serious talent and female boxers in Mayo were very much to the fore in 2015.

Shannon Sweeney, St. Anne’s Boxing Club, Westport, won her third successive Mayo, Connaught and national Girl 16 48kg title for her club.

In June she capped that by winning the Girl Under 18 division. She represented Ireland against England earlier this season and came away with the win and the Best Boxer Award.

She was the only boxer from Connaught to box in the European Championship in Hungary.