Matthew Macklin: British or Irish?

His nationality depends on who is promoting him. He was British when "he who cannot be named" had him.

 

To clear this up, he played up to U-16 for Tipperary, or so their captain told me last week - he was on the same team and said Macklin was a very good player.

 

Did he play a championship game?

I heard he played in a Micky mouse one day knockout tournament.

 

I was talking to one of Macklin's mates from Balingarry on the flight to Birmingham for the Magnificent Seven show. He said Macklin was as big a loss to Tipp hurling as Shane Long was. If Macklin hadn't chosen boxing over Hurling, he would have made the senior Tipp panel handy.

His mate also said to me that Macklin attends as many as possible Tipp senior championship matches.
Here's an article about Macklin and hurling:
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/tabId/63/itemId/10467/Underdog-Macklin-keen-on-upsetting-the-odds.aspx

 

The article pretty much said what I heard. He only played for Tipp in a tournament.

I remember there was a Tipp hurling officianardo on Boards.ie and he argued vehemently that the only time Macklin played for Tipp was in a tournament. He was not a regular county player.

Not taking anything away from him as he was obviously good but I think the Tipp thing is over played by Macklin.

 

even if it was in a knockout tourno, thats fairly feckin good for a lad the grew up in Brum.

 

EOIN KELLY: - from paper at the weekend
THE Tipperary forward captained the side for their historic win over Kilkenny last year.
Macklin has taken inspiration from that - but he used to play with Kelly at underage level for the county.
Kelly said: "Definitely we'd be looking out for him.
"He loves Tipperary hurling and I know he keeps up the connections with the club and the lads he played underage with, like myself and John O'Brien.
"It's gas listening to him, for a man who's away so much from Ireland and dealing with the best boxers in the world, he still knows and follows the hurling.
"It's great and if we can inspire him in any way with our achievement from last year, I hope it works in his favour.
"If he can get the belt he'd be welcome (to bring it to the Munster final) anyway."
Asked whether or not Macklin made the right decision to become a pro boxer rather than concentrate on hurling, Kelly added: "I'd say if he wins this title he'd be a small bit richer than a few of us playing this hurling.
"I remember playing him in a South minor hurling final, Ballingarry vs Mullinahone. He had actually boxed the night before up the country.
"And he came down and I think he scored three points from play that day. Ballingarry won by a point so he was definitely able to play."

 

laz u should **** off to ****stan with your bum boy khan, is it true that your wank that hard over khan you ended up in acoma, maklin is irish you knobjockey, :scaredas::scaredas:

 

he's british if he wins and irish if he loses ;-)

 

We got loads of people like macklin here in brummyland,born here but call themselves irish/****stani etc

 

Not true, whilst I'm naturally delighted that he choose to represent Ireland it wouldn't have bothered me if he they played God Save the Queen and he came out under a Union Jack

 

atsch he was fighting for Irish professional titles and topping bills in Dublin long before w-a-r-r-e-n ever promoted him.