Six things we learned from the Olympic Games

Irish boxing is punching above its weight

Six things we learned from the Olympic Games

Huge credit must go to Billy Walsh and the team he has built to guide the best of the best in Irish boxing. The coaching talents of Walsh, Pete Taylor, Zaur Antia and company are now the envy of the world. And the fear is that the world will now come calling with cheque books at the ready to entice our brightest boxing brains trust away from these shores. Hopefully new contracts will be waiting for everyone involved when they touch down in Dublin today.

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