Quote Originally Posted by milkman View Post
Ah, Debest, wikipedia is a great thing ! You're dead right about the whole snobbery towards boxing though - when you see the number of medals won at World Junior and Senior Championships,the Olympics and our standing in international amateur boxing,its frankly shocking to see how poorly as a sport its covered here in Ireland.Its probably going to take teenager Joe Ward's (almost) inevitable win in the World Championships next year despite being only 17 to really capture the imagination of the Irish public.
See Anon. I couldn't have laid it out like that.