Champion Lee is home in Castleconnell at last

Forget being tired in the ring, Ireland’s newest world champion, Limerick boxer Andy Lee, must be exhausted with his seemingly endless homecoming.

Ireland doesn’t produce too many world champions, so when we do we like to celebrate it. With Lee’s stunning stoppage of highly touted and undefeated Russian Matt Korobov last month in Las Vegas, he became the first Irish boxer to win a world title on American soil since 1934.

No surprise, then, that he’s been been receiving a hero’s welcome everywhere he has gone since.