Tokyo timeline: How Irish boxing dimmed the ghosts of Rio Olympics

The dust had scarcely settled on the 2016 Olympics before Rio recriminations began
Tokyo timeline: How Irish boxing dimmed the ghosts of Rio Olympics

Olympic gold medal champion Kellie Harrington has an emotional homecoming from Tokyo to her community in the North Inner City of Dublin on an open-top bus. Picture: Conor McCabe Photography

Irish boxing’s wave of positivity post-London had, by then, already given way to altogether choppier waters.

2012 was the house that Billy Walsh built, after all.

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