Hugh Russell: 'There were riots and burning cars but the fight would start and the fighting would stop'

It’s 40 years to the day since Hugh Russell secured a bronze medal for Ireland at the Moscow Olympics

OLYMPIC MEDALLISTS: Michael Conlan, Hugh Russell, and Paddy Barnes at a Commonwealth Games training camp in Jordanstown, Co Antrim, in July 2014. Picture: Inpho/Presseye/Darren Kidd

If one picture paints a thousand words then no amount of ink would do justice to Hugh Russell’s life through a lens.

It was Russell, an award-winning photographer with the Irish News, who captured the iconic shot of Gerry Conlon leaving the Old Bailey in 1989 after the Guildford Four were set free.