{"id":597714,"date":"2026-08-19T04:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597714\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:16:13","slug":"conlan-believes-boxing-ireland-need-to-get-national-head-coach-appointment-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/597714\/","title":{"rendered":"Conlan Believes Boxing Ireland Need to get National Head Coach Appointment Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irish-boxing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Conlan<\/a> believes Boxing Ireland needs to make the right choice when appointing a new National Head Coach.<\/p>\n<p>One of Ireland\u2019s greatest ever amateurs believes the sport needs greater coaching depth across the country and feels a strong National Head Coach could help in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>The search to find a permanent replacement for renowned coach and tactician Zaur Antia has picked up pace this week with Boxing Ireland advertising for applicants to fill the \u2018senior leadership role responsible for directing the technical and tactical delivery of Boxing Ireland\u2019s High Performance Programme\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic gold medal winner suggests it\u2019s essential those in charge of Ireland\u2019s most successful Olympic sport on the Island find the right person to fill the void.<\/p>\n<p>And Ireland\u2019s only ever male amateur world champion believes that appointment is important for reasons beyond just a strong High Performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m going to be honest, I think now the Zaur is gone, the national coaching setup north and south is left without enough depth in the coaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of development needed in the coaching and maybe the right head coach brought in can help that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conlan has always been a strong supporter of the amateur side of the sport is hoping the next generation can go on an emulate his unique successes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love someone to go and win one,\u201d he says of his World title success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud I\u2019m the first one and no one can beat that, but I would love someone to go and win one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Conlan believes Boxing Ireland needs to make the right choice when appointing a new National Head Coach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,2362,43],"class_list":["post-597714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-conlan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}