Clare's world champion who united Ireland for a few hours

100 years ago this week, Mike McTigue from Kilnamona in Clare became light heavyweight champion of the world

SCULPTING IN TIME: Michael McTigue's sketch for the memorial stone

Lives get shaped in two main ways.

Footwork and punch, boxing terms. The wearing down and the executive force. Some lives take the tilt of decades, a slow gravity’s pull. Some lives decisively alter in a moment, made by a single decision’s axe.