Walsh sets the bar high for Irish team ahead of Worlds

IRELAND will win one medal and qualify three boxers for London 2012 if targets set in advance of the World Championships in Baku are met.

High Performance Coach, Billy Walsh, assembled his troops at the High Performance Unit on South Circular Road yesterday — 10 in all — and insisted each one of them has the potential to qualify for next year’s Olympic Games.

“We set a target at the beginning of the year that we’d qualify five boxers for London 2012 and at the World Championships we’d hope to qualify three and win one medal,” he said.