Sports Council tightlipped as boxing stand-off continues

THE row between the IABA and the Irish Sports Council over the withdrawal of funding for the Irish boxing’s new Chief Executive Officer and Director of High Performance rages on.

Last month the Irish Sports Council informed the IABA it was not prepared to fund the positions in 2010 as it was unhappy with the recruitment process for the two posts.

Details of the correspondence were revealed in a brief statement from the ISC after it became known that the President of the IABA, Dominic O’Rourke, had been appointed to the position of Director of High Performance over Head Coach, Billy Walsh.