Patsy Joyce has been nominated for the RTE Younger Sports activities Individual of the 12 months.
The gifted teen has been acknowledged for a superb breakout 2025 and now battles seven different younger abilities for the celebrated gong.
The 11-time Nationwide moved from youth prospect to Elite star over the past 12 months, profitable World Championship bronze in his first 12 months in senior boxing.
His World Championship medal was Eire’s first male medal on the grade since Joe Ward, Joyce’s cousin’s World Championship medal win in 2017.
The Olympic Mullingar boxer entered the match in Liverpool because the youngest member of Staff Eire and the youngest in his weight class within the competitors.
En path to the semi remaining the 20-year-old defeated Jaeyong Shin of Korea, Cuban-born Bulgarian Olympian and World and European medalist, Javier Ibanez Diaz and Uzbekistan’s Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov – an Asian champion and World Boxing Cup medalist, a veteran 11 years his senior.
Joyce is amongst 6 nominees, together with Alex Dunne, the primary Irish driver to win an F2 race, profitable in Bahrain and Italy, Conor Kelly topped finest Below-20 400 metres runner in Europe by profitable gold on the European Athletics U20 Championships, John Quick gold medallist within the 200m backstroke on the European Quick-Course Championships and double gold on the World Junior Championships in each the 100m and 200m backstroke, Michael Noonan – youngest ever scorer of a UEFA Convention League purpose, discovering the web for Shamrock Rovers v Molde on the age of 16, Roisin Ni Rian who received a hat-trick of silver medal on the World Para Swimming Championships plus two additional bronze medals and Sean Butterly winner of a gold medal within the Junior Males’s K1 on the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Hungary.
This Saturday at 8.05pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Participant, Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Maloney and David Gillick will current the RTÉ Sport Awards 2025 from Studio 4 in RTÉ.
