Putting the Big Bang theory into practice

THE crowd that packed the UL Arena in Limerick last Saturday night came for high-class, high-energy boxing. They got just that and, as a bonus, they left with an inspirational story to cherish in these gloomy times.

The bare facts of that evening in UL tell us that local man Willie Casey out-thought and out-fought Dubliner Paul Hyland to become the new super bantamweight champion of Europe.

However, at a time when we, as a nation, are being knocked almost senseless by a succession of blows, blind-sided by those we thought were the brightest and best, the story behind Casey’s rise to the European summit is a light in the dark.