Councillors’ charity clash ‘will be like Ali vs Frazier’ bout

The boxing impresario Don King would have been suitably impressed with the hype generated at a Cork County Council meeting when standing orders were suspended to discuss the art of pugilism.

Cllr Alan Coleman, who heads the Fianna Fáil group in County Hall, threw down the gauntlet to political rivals, inviting them to challenge his party colleague Kevin O’Keeffe in a charity boxing match.

The event is to be held in Mitchelstown on Mar 16.