Irish Boxing

Tommy McCarthy is going to be added to the Burnett undercard in Belfast in a British title eliminator:bbb

 

He's now the head of the family since Kinahan Sr. retired.

 

He hangs around with some of the biggest scumbags in Dublin yet you think there is no proof he is involved. Pull your head out o the sand

 

Its hard to avoid scumbags in Ireland, Moorser. Ireland is riddled with scumbags - right up to the very highest office in the land Taoiseach (Haughey etc). In our own way we all probably hang around with scumbags in one form or another.

 

big tommy could be the next star of irish boxing... stay tuned:good

 

Fatal Boxing Weigh-In: My experiences on that Fearful Friday

Boxing
Past Events
by Liam McInerney - February 7, 2016

Fatal Boxing Weigh-In: My experiences on that Fearful Friday

Few journalists were present at the notorious weigh-in on February 5, 2016. As a reporter who was there, I feel a duty to document the grim happenings through my eyes. My purpose isn’t to embellish, or dilute, what was a frightening affair. As a writer, I intend to simply write about what occurred from my perspective. National media organisations have called, attempting to quote me, but I wanted to create this story myself, using the Fighstore Media website. This account is fast and ends abruptly, which is exactly how the incident played out.

On Thursday night I lay in bed restlessly. Not out of fear. I didn’t have a dream like Sugar Ray Robinson, when he envisaged killing his opponent, which unfortunately became a nightmare reality. No, nothing as ominous as that.

Anticipation was why I couldn’t sleep.

Fightstore Media granted me the opportunity to cover boxing for them three months ago. As a 21-year-old journalism student, speaking to famous fighters and being ringside at significant events is exhilarating.

I attended the ‘Clash of the Clans’ press conference on Thursday at the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin. After the proceedings, I exited the building satisfied, having just interviewed boxer Philip Sutcliffe Jr. I strolled happily from the hotel, and headed home to file stories.

24 hours later I would be leaving the same location. But this time I would be sprinting for my life.

So after a night of twisting and turning, I returned to the hotel for the weigh-ins. Small, sporadic and random occurrences remain vivid.

“Do I wanna know” by the Arctic Monkeys played on the speakers. I remember that because it’s one of my favourite songs. Stefan, who runs Fightstore with Claire, showed me his new camera that was recently delivered. An MGM official handed me press passes for the weekend’s two shows.

Then the weigh-ins commenced. And danger lurked, eerily close by.

Eventually Stephen Ormond weighed in. On Monday I contacted him to arrange an interview. I left my seat beside Claire and Stefan, and approached the fighter at the side of the stage. Thankfully, he was content to chat with me. We drifted from the noisy crowd into the corridor just outside the function room. I pressed the record button on my device, and two minutes and 40 seconds into the recording, a now chilling message is spoken to Stephen. “Very important” says the man urgently. “Paschal (his trainer) needs to speak to you straight away, sorry for breaking the interview.” Stephen smiled at me and said, “one sec”. I paused the recorder.

Seconds later the door from the weigh-ins burst open and terrified faces bundled out frantically. Their startled, petrified expressions spoke volumes. Men, women and children.

“Run!” was the shout a woman directed at me as a gunshot blasted from inside the room. With the crowd, I quickly departed the main entrance to be faced by men, dressed in Garda SWAT gear, pointing AK-47s in our direction. I had no idea they were perilously disguised, if I did, maybe I wouldn’t have ran right by them.

Opposite the hotel, one person jumped over a wall. I did the same a few metres away and scrambled up desperately, searching for grip, and ended up crouched in somebody’s garden. That’s when another shot was fired. This one was even louder, and felt precariously near the wall I just descended. It didn’t occur to me that it may have been the SWAT men with rifles, who I presumed were there to protect us. That booming, threatening, shriek of a gun-shot is still ringing clearly in my head.

I crept along a row of houses, believing I was in the midst of a terror attack. My phone buzzed, fortunately it was Claire, her and Stefan had escaped unscathed. Minutes later we were in the car, driving to safety.

It was surreal. One moment I was talking to Stephen Ormond, one of the most high profile boxers I had ever questioned, and then I was dashing away from a murder scene.

My internship at Fightstore has been incredible, and this tragic day will remain forever indelible in my memory, but it won’t deter my enthusiasm.

Now I aim to go back to interviewing Irish stars like Lynn Harvey and Michael Conlan and watching Katie Taylor and Declan Geraghty perform live, instead of writing gloomy reports about a horrific ordeal. And the next occasion I meet with Stephen Ormond, I trust it will be remembered for more positive reasons.

Anyway, enough of implementing pronouns like “I” and “me”, it’s time to continue writing about a sport I love, boxing.

Until then, thank you for reading

:good

 

Don't forget Succo. He could have a very good career too. Both of them have the right attitude.

 

Well I personally wouldn't go near known violent drug pushing scum or have anything to do with them but some people actually think these people are great blokes and to be admired, sad muopetts IMO who watch to many gangster films like yourself by the sounds of it.

 

I wonder what matthew mack lin thinks of all this? How the he'll did he get involved in this world? Marbella parties and hot chocks? ??

 

Scumbags come in many forms Moorser - not just drug pushers.

As far as 'having nothing to do with drug pushers' - let me ask you - if drugs were legalised - and the proceeds taxed - would you accept grants and funding from drug taxes for a club you were involved in?? You betcha you would and well you know it.

Look in the mirror first before pointing the finger at me. Are you proud of what you see? Hmm?

Very few of us can be too proud of ourselves here in the banana republic, given that we all collectively, as Irish citizens are guilty of turning a potentially great country into Knackeragua.

 

Really McGuinty? You were at his retirement party, were you? Chipped in to buy him a nice watch, did you?

 

It's been in the news since Friday.

 

Thats 2 minutes of my life that I can never get back.
What point are you trying to make Fra?
Did you have to copy all that waffle - could you just have posted a link and then people could look at it if they want.

 

Your a fool . Its the fact these people are volient scum who bully and intimidate innocent people and are known to be involved in murders these sent your run of the mill drug dealers

 

I agree I think Succo has the potential to make a success of his career, but he needs a promoter behind him who will get him some TV air time and bring the titles after.