Fergal Carruth: ‘Billy Walsh given six separate proposals’

After three long days of silence on the Billy Walsh resignation saga, IABA CEO Fergal Carruth sat down with boxing reporters to face questions. Here is an edited transcript of some of the most notable issues discussed…

THE LONG DELAY ON AN IABA STATEMENT

Fergal Carruth: We don’t like to air our dirty linen in public and we were faced with a situation where the Irish Sports Council were coming out with statements about us and comments about the IABA that were untruths… we felt that the time was now to come back out and give our side of the story.