Billy Walsh (right), who has resigned as Irish boxing coach, with reporter Damien Tiernan (centre) and camera operator Neilus Dennehy of RTÉ in Wexford this afternoon
A statement from the Sports Council and Sports Minister Michael Ring concerning the resignation of Billy Walsh as coach to the Irish boxing team this morning.
Via Gavin Reilly
Olympic silver medalist Kenneth Egan tells #98FMSport he’s worried Billy Walsh may not be last to leave http://t.co/srk6c2QDfa …
— 98FM Sport (@98FMsport) October 19, 2015
VIDEO: Walsh resigns as Irish boxing head coach (RTÉ)
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Is this about money? If so goodbye. I can see no justification for using tax money to fund sports coaches.
Absolutely not. The last thing we want is more young people getting involved in sport amidst the current obesity crisis.
He coaches high-performance people, in fairness. Not school kids. School coaches cost far less, we could probably hire ten for the price of this fella.
And also, it’s boxing, bye now.
Must everything be about money Ahjaysiz?
No
And not in this case either
Read the statement
“Non- financial Aspects”
The RTE cameraman is Neilus Dennehy if you want to update the photo caption
He deserves our best wishes. He did an outstanding job.
seems like another ministerial level cluster fupp. though I couldn’t care about boxing etc.
How is this a ministerial level feck up? It clearly says the issues were between Walsh and the IABA. Anyone who has been even marginally following this story knows there is some issue around what Walsh wants in terms of day to day working conditions (ie how he does his job) and what the IABA are willing to agree to. Seems to be a control issue between coach and board. If i was a guessing man (and I am), I’d suggest this is akin to the pre-professional era of rugby where the amateur board still had a major say in team selection, despite a professional coach being in place who should really be doing that.
The man was magnificent and is almost irreplaceable. It had nothing to do with money.
We should pay him a fupping heap load of cash as he deserves it. €127,000 a year was offered. Now when you’re being offered a third of Joe Duffy’s salary and you’re the most successful Irish sports coach by a country mile….I’d do one to America too.
This is a country where Brian Kerr is employed to give analysis on TV 3 and not coach our underage national teams. Despite being our most successful youth soccer coach ever.
It’s sick.
And then you had Redacted and Desmond teaming up to pay that senile Italian tool a million a year.
Pfff.
Michael carruths brother is high up in the I.A.B.A. In this corrupt little cabal of a country……..guess who’ll take over……go on…..have a guess
Roddy Collins?
Who? Neilus Dennehy?
He said it wasn’t about money but about other issues as far as I can tell. With regard to the Brian Kerr comment fairly sure he does not want to coach under age teams anymore.
I didn’t know that. Any link? Even still, he should be overseeing things. You only have to watch/read his analysis to know that it’s an absolute waste to have him just doing media work.
And as for Billy, someone please do something. Otherwise let’s pray he gets homesick in a year’s time.