Mr. Ciaran Kirwan:

I can answer that question in collaboration with Mr. Treacy. The difference between now and five years ago is completely, diametrically opposite. During my tenure as director and as chairman, we have enjoyed a close working relationship with Mr. Treacy and Paul McDermott, who have been of great assistance to me. We have rebuilt that relationship. I would like to think it is now a relationship that is symbiotic and mutually beneficial to Sport Ireland and ourselves. As Mr. Treacy alluded to earlier, more money has been put in at club level than ever before. I will be pressing very hard for that to remain the case. I said this earlier and I have to keep saying it. We are a volunteer-led organisation. Boxing would not exist in this country without volunteers. The high performance unit would disappear. I think and believe that all those bridges can be mended. This is a difficult time, as Mr. Treacy said. There is an election. The members of the committee are politicians so they know how factions develop, even within their own parties. These things happen, but they change and people come together. At the end of the day, most people in boxing are passionate about boxing and, above all else, about their boxers. Many of them are father figures to their boxers. It is an extraordinary sport. As Mr. Treacy said, it has made an enormous contribution-----