Katie perfect for pro game, says trailblazer Deirdre

Katie Taylor faces a fork in the road in the coming weeks: Stick with amateur boxing and fight to retain her gold medal in Rio in 2016, or turn professional.

If she decides on the latter, she might want to listen to Deirdre Gogarty.

Deirdre, originally from Mornington in Co Meath but now a resident of Lafayette in the US state of Louisiana, is so in thrall to boxing that she married her husband Victor Morrison in the ring at the boxing club where she teaches youngsters.