Willie Lenihan

Willie Lenihan started boxing at the age of twelve and trained at Arbour Hill Boxing Club in Dublin. He won his first All-Ireland Juvenile title in 1932, one of six total juvenile titles he would eventually win before he advanced to the senior level of competition in 1938. He was the Irish bantamweight champion in 1941. In 1948, he was selected as a member of the Irish Olympic boxing delegation and competed in the bantamweight division, losing to Gianni Zuddas of Italy in the quarterfinal.

Outside of boxing, Lenihan worked as an electrician for the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) and was also a member of their athletic club. After his retirement from competitive boxing, he served as a trainer to the Royal College of Surgeons boxing teams and produced local radio broadcasts of boxing instructions. In 1952, he moved to Scotland for an engineering job, and had returned to Ireland by 1974 at which time he was a self-employed businessman. He later retired to Ashbourne, Meath where he remained until his death in 2009 at the age of 88.