IABA Chairman: Boxing coach Billy Walsh 'not a victim of a campaign to oust him'

The IABA offered a glowing report on their relations with Walsh despite the evident division between the top trainer and the sports’ senior administrators

Irish boxing chiefs have denied a campaign to force the country’s most successful sports coach out of his job.

Joe Christle, chair of the Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA), said Billy Walsh was already the highest paid member of its staff and agreeing to a new €1.6million pay package would have been “reckless or irresponsible”.