Five time world champion Katie Taylor says she is proud to be a role model for Irish girls getting into boxing.

The Bray native arrived back in Ireland this week, after winning the world championships in South Korea.

She won a fifth AIBA World Championship by beating Yana Alekseevna by a unanimous points decision.

She is now setting her sights on qualifying for the Olympics in Rio in 2016.

Taylor with her fifth world championship medal | Image: Photocall

Taylor's coach Billy Walsh talked about her latest achievement in the context of the career-defining choice she made, following the 2012 Olympics.

"The easy option for her was to go professional. She could have filled the 3 Arena on numerous occasions, especially on the back of the gold medal. But in a few fights she would be world champion because there aren't many women in world professional boxing and the ones that were there she'd beaten before as an amateur," said Walsh.

"But she went away and thought about it and she chose to go the hard route to go to Rio."

Katie (28) told the Ray D'Arcy Show on Today FM that she is happy she has inspired other girls to get into boxing.