'Why not join a boxing club?' says judge as he jails 'bare-knuckle' fight man

A judge has told a west Clare man who knocked out another man in an organised "bare-knuckle" fight uploaded to Facebook and Youtube to join a boxing club.

'Why not join a boxing club?' says judge as he jails 'bare-knuckle' fight man

A judge has told a west Clare man who knocked out another man in an organised "bare-knuckle" fight uploaded to Facebook and Youtube to join a boxing club.

At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Gerald Keys told a former Munster boxing champion, Anthony Kelly (aged 40) of Place de Plouzane, Kilrush: “If you want to get into combat in the future why not join a boxing club which you were a member of at some stage?”

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