Aidan Walsh: 'I'll look back and say this was an amazing time in my life'

There was certainly a sense of fate having had a say, and it manifested itself in how Walsh viewed his glass as half-full

Michaela Wash kisses her brother Aidan after he was awarded his Olympic bronze medal in the men’s welterweight division at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo yesterday. Picture: Brendan Moran

Maybe the bronze was meant to be.

Jim McCourt had earned the same colour for Ireland in the Japanese capital back in 1964, and Niall Walsh had always told his grandson Aidan that the similarities between the two Belfast men in the ring were almost uncanny.