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Jack Doyle was notorious long before Conor McGregor

Every sports star fits the age in which they flourish. Nowhere was this point more obviously made than when Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather embarked on their four-city press conference tour to sell their forthcoming ‘fight’.

Fri, 11 Aug, 2017

Conor McGregor: Smart business or reheated patriotism?

Conor McGregor is a sportsman, a showman, an entrepreneur and on his way to becoming extremely rich, writes Paul Rouse.

Thu, 24 Dec, 2015

Jack Doyle: The tragic tale of the Gorgeous Gael

JACK DOYLE, boxer, singer, actor, lover, drinker, was born a hundred years ago this Saturday, Aug 31, in Cobh, Co Cork. His life was preposterous — he knocked out Clarke Gable in a fight over actress Carole Lombard — but it ended, like that of so many prizefighters, in the gutter.

Thu, 29 Aug, 2013

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