Walsh gets shot at Irish title

BILLY WALSH will find himself fighting for an Irish title after just a handful of professional bouts when he takes on the experienced James Gorman for the vacant light welterweight title at Neptune Stadium in Cork on January 26.

While this will be the third professional show in Cork in just 12 months it will be the first at Neptune Stadium since Olympic silver medallist Shawn O’Sullivan’s dramatic victory over Pat McDowell back in 1985 — a highlight of the Cork 800 celebrations.

And Walsh can’t wait to get it going. Yesterday at his base, the Midleton Fitness Centre, he had custody of the belt — but it came with a warning from Gorman to look after it as he would be coming to collect it on January 26.