Gary Keegan
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And for an individual sport, I felt it was really important that we would build a team ethos, that we would share IP, we would share experiences, the guys would learn from each other.
And that proved to be very beneficial over time.
And we put our ambition on the wall, Joe.
That was pretty major.
Because a lot of people said, you know, that vision is unrealistic.
It's supposed to be unrealistic.
It's supposed to be unreasonable.
But our vision was to consistently stand on world podiums.
We were naive, but we were excited about the possibility of that and had no idea how.
we could make that happen.
And the how was really important, but we had the why, we were there.
And we had a belief that if we could produce
Irish boxers who could compete and win on the world stage.
Well, then we also needed to produce world-class coaches, world-class science and medicine staff.
So this big kind of development journey that everybody had to develop and grow together.
And it was a bit about serving your apprenticeship at a high performance level and being curious and being open and knowing that there'll be a lot of setbacks and a lot of obstacles and a lot of difficulty along the way.
Absolutely nothing.
I had been coaching for, at that point, 17 years within the organisation.
Had worked my way up to the ranks.
Austin Crute, Lord Reston and Gerry Storey had...