Walsh to meet Egan on Olympic plans

KENNETH EGAN is scheduled to meet Irish coach Billy Walsh later today and will travel to Belfast on Friday with the High Performance squad as the build-up to the London Olympics 2012 gets under way.

There were concerns about the prospects of the Beijing silver medallist leading the Irish team into the new Olympic cycle when he failed to show up for last Friday night’s international against the USA.

It is now understood Egan left for New York after photographs of him, taken with a mobile phone during the week, subsequently appeared in a tabloid newspaper.