Philip Kavanagh

Philp Kavanagh Roars Towards GaelForce Westpark Fitness Instructor and Black Panther member Philip Kavanagh tackles the gruelling endurance race Gaelforce  on Saturday the 21st of August.  Gaelforce is infamous as the largest one day adventure race of its kind at 65km long and astonishingly there is talk that this may be increased in length !  Currently the course […]

Denis

Welcome back to Denis and Linda We had a full gym on wednesday night and it was clear to see everybody was back from holidays and Denis and Linda are back fighting fit welcome back Denis and Linda

Chris Boyne wins

Congratulations to Chris Boyne, who won in Wicklow last night (Saturday, 24 July). Chris, who trains from time to time at the Black Panther gym in Brookfield, took a unanimous decision over Michael John Devlin in their 81kg category top-of-the-bill bout on the Wicklow Fight Night card. Chris stuck to his game plan and got […]

Norman praises confident Chris

Chris Boyne returns to the ring tonight (Saturday, 24 July) with some encouraging words from Black Panther chief instructor Norman Kelly to spur him on. Chris, 35, takes on Michael John Devlin in an 81kg contest as part of the Wicklow Fight Night bill, and Norman told blackpanther.ie: “It is easy to see how much […]

Diet’s going well

Niamh Greene, Black Panther’s weight-loss program co-ordinator, says things are going “really well” right now with the diet Philip Kavanagh devised. Initially, Niamh found it difficult to drum up some support for the diet but all that has changed now, with more and more people coming on board with each passing week. Niamh, who’s also […]

Chris is ready to rumble!

Chris Boyne is confident his return to the ring will be a winning one tomorrow night (Saturday, 24 July). And he is ever so grateful for the extra help he has received from Black Panther chief instructor Norman Kelly, in addition to the training he has received at his own club, Wild Geese Martial Arts, […]

Norman salutes super Hoops

Black Panther chief instructor Norman Kelly has praised Shamrock Rovers after the Tallaght-based Hoops secured a glamour tie against Italian giants Juventus in UEFA’s Europa League on Thursday (22 July). Rovers beat Israeli team Bnei Yehuda 1-0 in Tel Aviv to advance to the third qualifying round of the competition on a 2-1 aggregate victory. […]

Philip’s a star

Philip Kavanagh from Westpark Fitness is a real sucker for punishment – that’s for sure! We told you last week that Philip (pictured below on the right) is taking part in this year’s world-famous Gaelforce West event on Saturday, 21 August with all monies he raises being donated to the Black Panther club. Nice one […]

Another record day!

The kids’ pictures went down a real treat with you at the weekend – that’s for sure. No sooner had blackpanther.ie chief photographer Niamh Greene taken the photos of our junior fighters than the website went into overdrive. So much so that a late rush of activity on Friday night (16 July) ended with a […]

Tommo returns!

Thomas Bateman was back calling the shots at the Black Panther gym in Brookfield last night (Monday, 19 July). As the senior instructor, Tommo (pictured below on the extreme right) takes the adult classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, but work commitments had kept him away recently – until last night when he got back […]