McDonagh faces career defining showdown

ARTHUR McDONAGH from Fermoy will have the perfect opportunity to put the disappointment of the recent national championships behind him when he travels to Germany tomorrow for back-to-back boxing tournaments in Berlin.

The two-time national champion and a former Four Nations gold medallist lost in the final of this year’s Boy 4 championship at the National Stadium.

In what was an unusual decision — the computer failed to register a scoring point for him in either the first or last rounds.