Everyone a winner in Billy Walsh saga

The week has been a game-changer for Billy Walsh.

He was close anyway, but a boxing man would never quite have made it on the steam of his work alone.

Billy needed a week like this to propel himself into the small group of Irish lay saints; the select group of unimpeachables that currently numbers Panti Bliss, Imelda May, Bressie, Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, weather woman Jean Byrne, and every current and former Irish rugby international.