Katie Taylor facing toughest call of her career

Some 15 years before claiming Olympic gold, an 11-year-old Katie Taylor offered a humble prediction in a letter she wrote to a fellow female fighter.

“I got this letter and I always kept it,” explained former world champion Deirdre Gogarty in a 2012 interview. “I hadn’t looked at it for years and years and not long before the [London] Olympics I pulled it out. At the end if it, she [Taylor] says, ‘I can’t see women’s boxing taking off over here but maybe one day they’ll even let us box in the Olympics’. It’s pretty amazing to see her write that.”

Amazing, indeed, considering what Taylor went on to achieve, but following speculation that the Bray woman is set to turn professional, it may be worth reviewing both that letter and Gogarty’s career in general.