Just weeks after taking a vow of silence and promising not to give any more press interviews, boxer Kenny Egan has told the Sunday Tribune he wants to write his autobiography.

A contrite Egan said he would shun all media publicity in favour of hard training to get his career back on track after coming under fire for failing to show up to captain the Irish team in an international tie against the USA on 28 February.

Now, the Olympic silver medallist said he is considering chronicling the last 12 months of his life on paper.

"I would just like to do it about my life. The only problem is that there would be an awful lot of f**king in it [laughs]. What I mean by that is curse words."

Egan is not yet believed to have been approached by a publishing company, though there is little doubt there would be big interest in signing the 27-year-old.

Egan insists he is now back in serious training and participated in last Sunday's Great Ireland Run in the Phoenix Park.

Running to raise money for The Baby Max Wings Of Love Charity, he finished the 10 kilometre race in a respectable 46 minutes.

"I started with a friend of mine that did it with me and he was breathing through his arse after the first 'K'. There were some great people on it like Ray D'Arcy who I finished with. A brilliant day out altogether," said Egan.

The boxer also expressed delight at seeing his friend Bernard Dunne win the WBA super-bantamweight title in the O2 last month after a thrilling fight against Pananmanian Ricardo Cordoba.

Egan had originally been lined up to box on the undercard of the world title fight last 21 March in a rematch with China's Xiaoping Zhang but pulled out, saying he was out of condition.

Instead he caught the bout on television. "I watched it in Cork and was jumping around the room. It was a cracking fight. Unbelievable. I was cheering Bernard. The fact that he got up after two standing counts is just unbelievable and his whole condition, his training. Everything was perfect. I think the most important thing is that Bernard believed in himself and just fought so well. He had the lad down in the first round. He was stopped twice in one round and still went on to win the fight."

Unlike Dunne, Egan said he has no plans to go professional despite numerous lucrative offers.

"It was a cracker of a fight for Bernard but in regards to me, it's not a road I want to go down. I obviously turned down professional contracts this, that and the other, but I have no interest in the professional game," he said.

The boxer, whose Olympic success doubled the membership of his local club in Neilstown, has got stuck into a gruelling routine preparing for more amateur bouts.

"I'm in training all the time, twice a day. Hopefully I will box in the EU tournament in Denmark in June and that will get me ready for the World Championships in Milan in September."