Former World Champion Boxer Bernard Dunne has been unveiled as Irish boxing's new High Performance director. Bernard will work alongside the high performance coaching team led by Zaur Anita. Bernard wants to ensure that Ireland is within the top-three countries in terms of the numbers of boxers competing at Tokyo in 2020. He also hopes that Ireland will become the best boxing nation in the world, moving from the previous best of fifth-ranked nation achieved at London 2012. Bernard's vision is to take the very best in the current system and match it with the very latest in high performance training so that men and women can perform and win at European, World and Olympic level. |