IABA urged to implement reforms but funding not under threat

As Bernard Dunne is latest to step aside due to internal bickering, boxing body is told it needs to show a plan

Huge impact: Ireland’s Kellie Harrington and Bernard Dunne celebrate with her gold medal

Sport Ireland has declared that it will not be cutting off the Irish Athletic Boxing Association's (IABA) funding until it gets its house in order.

And the body has also dismissed the idea that amateur boxing’s high-performance programme could extricate itself from the mess that is its parent body's endemic infighting by operating as an independent unit.