Top award for Ballina Boxing Club

Ballina Boxing Club has been chosen winners of the Mayo County award in this year’s Texaco Support for Sport initiative.

A sum of €5,000 has been presented to the Club to fund training and first-aid equipment, coupled with a PA system for its newly-constructed premises.

Established in 1927, Ballina Boxing Club is the oldest of its kind in Mayo and has guided many athletes – male and female – to success in the discipline over the years.

Last year the club relocated to the newly developed ‘Dick Hearns Centre’, named in honour of the town's renowned boxer and trainer, late Ballina native Dick Hearns.

Now in its fourth year, the Texaco Support for Sport initiative – organised by Valero Energy (Ireland) Limited, the company that markets fuel in Ireland under the Texaco brand – sees a fund of €130,000 set aside annually for allocation in equal amounts of €5,000 to successful applicants chosen on a county-by-county basis.