The Boxing Federation of India has named former Irish boxer Bernard Dunne as director of high performance. He replaces Santiago Nieva.
I’m sure Dunne will guide our boxers to the next level of performance.” He also guided Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke to gold medals at the last world boxing championships and Aidan Walsh to a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. “He was a legendary boxer and has also done exceptionally well while working with the Ireland team,” BFI president Ajay Singh said.
Dunne resigned as High Performance director of Irish boxing in May after five years in the job. He had been on leave since the previous August following his ...
“It will be a great opportunity for me to work with them and contribute to their success. It is believed there is legal action depending between Dunne and the IABA. It wanted Dunne retained for the Tokyo Games but for his next contract not to be longer than one year. Dunne resigned as High Performance director of Irish boxing in May after five years in the job. They felt alienated and over a period of time their relationship with Dunne soured. While he enjoyed an excellent working relationship with Harrington’s club coach Noel Burke, this was not the case with other club coaches including a number who had boxers involved in the High Performance programme.
Former High Performance coach joins Billy Walsh as two boxing talents forced out of the Irish system.
I’m sure Dunne will guide our boxers to the next level of performance.” “He was a legendary boxer and has also done exceptionally well while working with the Ireland team,” BFI president Ajay Singh told the Hindustan Times. Bernard Dunne has been officially declared the head of India’s High Performance boxing.
Olympic champion Kellie Harrington has expressed her disappointment that Irish boxing was unable to hold onto former coach Bernard Dunne.
But all the best to Bernard on this new journey.’ In a statement yesterday, Dunne – who was a performance coach with the Galway GAA team last season – said he was excited to ‘take the standards of Indian boxing to a new high altogether.’ ‘To say I am disappointed that we lost him, and we could not do our best to keep him is an understatement,’ Harrington wrote.