Boxing legend Deirdre Gogarty to be honoured with statue in hometown Drogheda

Before Katie Taylor, there was Deirdre Gogarty. After a nearly unbelievable year, with resounding success from Katie Taylor, Amy Broadhurst, Lisa and Aoife O’Rourke, Kellie Harrington and many others, women’s boxing in Ireland seems to be at an all-time high. But it’s a good time to remember that just a few decades ago women’s boxing was illegal in Ireland—not that …

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