Eamonn Sweeney: Irish boxing is in a sorry state and the IABA must take a hard look at itself
Has this been the worst week and a bit in the history of Irish amateur boxing? Very probably.
Let’s face it, if at the height of the Billy Walsh controversy one of the Wexford man’s partisans had suggested that Michael O’Reilly, Paddy Barnes and Joe Ward between them wouldn’t win a single bout in Rio, he’d have been laughed out of court. “Come on,” we’d have said to him, “We know you’re upset but there’s no need to exaggerate.” Yet that is exactly what has happened.
