Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Departure of High Performance Unit Head Coach: IABA and Sport Ireland

11:00 am

Mr. Ciaran Kirwan:

Our chairman will deal with that. It is really important that it goes on the record that the association was incredibly proud of Billy Walsh and his achievements. If the Deputy carefully reads every public statement and utterance we have made, he will find that at no time have we ever been denigratory towards Billy Walsh. His record is outstanding and we were bitterly disappointed, but at the end of the day, for whatever reasons, if he decided he wanted to take up employment elsewhere, that was his entitlement. He was the one who made the decision. We accept that we would have preferred if he had made a different decision and remained with us The chairman will answer the Deputy's question on the differences between a high performance director and a coach.

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