New year’s treat as Ali’s Dublin date relived on the box

Sugrue persuaded Ali to come to Dublin, and when the boxer landed, he arrived in a very different country to the Ireland we live in today.

New year’s treat as Ali’s Dublin date relived on the box
Mon, 17 Dec, 2012 - 00:00
Michael Moynihan
Michael Moynihan

Forty years ago it happened, hard though it is to believe.

Muhammad Ali came to Ireland. To fight.

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