Mother begged Egan to quit booze

The mother of Olympic boxer Kenneth Egan got down on her knees in a cemetery and begged him to give up drink, he revealed yesterday.

Mother begged Egan to quit booze

In a brutally honest contribution to a workshop in Cork on addiction, Egan, who has been sober for two years, spoke openly about that being the moment he realised he had to seek help.

Flanked by his mother, Maura, whom he credits for his recovery, he said she took him to a cemetery in Dublin where she had buried two other sons.

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