Barrett returns for one-off appearance

CORK boxing legend Seanie Barrett returns to action tomorrow night at the Riverside Park Hotel in Macroom (8pm).

However, the former national champion insists this a one-off appearance for a charity show organised by club Rylane ABC, in aid of Marymount Hospice.

Barrett was an amateur sensation. In 2000, he defeated Paul McCloskey to retain his light welterweight title in a thriller at the national senior championships. A year earlier he ended Francis Barrett’s dream of making it to a second Olympics when he outpointed him in a delayed national final.