Walsh: boxing quintet hold Ireland’s best Olympic hopes

THE five-man boxing team hold Ireland’s best chance of a medal — or medals — at this year’s Olympic Games according to team manager, Jim Walsh.

There was an air of confidence about the Bruree man as he sang the praises of the what is the biggest boxing team to represent Ireland at an Olympic Games in 10 years, at the OCI headquarters in Howth.

There was just one Irish boxer competing in Sydney in 2000 when Michael Roche represented the country and again in Athens four years ago when another middleweight, Andy Lee, was the lone crusader.