{"id":569389,"date":"2026-03-29T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:09:09","slug":"himself-and-katie-taylor-started-to-turn-the-tide-billy-walsh-hails-michael-conlan-as-key-to-irish-boxings-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569389\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Himself and Katie Taylor started to turn the tide\u2019 \u2013 Billy Walsh hails Michael Conlan as \u2018key\u2019 to Irish boxing\u2019s renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Belfast fighter\u2019s former coach at amateur level hails the impact of his protege on the sport\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Billy Walsh with Michael Conlan at the London Olympics in 2012. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/is conl.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Billy Walsh with Michael Conlan at the London Olympics in 2012. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michael Conlan\u2019s career was one of many highs and so many agonising near misses which culminated in his retirement from professional boxing after defeat to Kevin Walsh in Belfast last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Conlan\u2019s final tilt at the professional world title he craved so much came up short, but it should not overshadow his glittering amateur career, from an Olympic bronze medal to becoming Ireland\u2019s first male World Championship gold medallist in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belfast fighter\u2019s former coach at amateur level hails the impact of his protege on the sport Billy Walsh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,59708,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-569389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-michael-conlan","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}