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Ronnie Whelan 
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 Topic: Hughie RussellPosted: 13 Oct 2023 at 8:30pm |
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RIP Hughie Russell, great achievement in Moscow 1980. Happy memory.
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longford claret
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Posted: 13 Oct 2023 at 9:16pm |
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Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal 1978 Olympic Games Bronze Medal 1980. Irish Bantamweight Champion, British Bantamweight Champion, British Flyweight Champion and Lonsdale Belt winner. Retired from boxing aged 26 or 27 and had a successful career as a Sports Photographer.
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Green Cockade
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Posted: 13 Oct 2023 at 10:07pm |
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Very nice guy as well. From New Lodge area in north Belfast. Very highly thought of by his colleagues at the Irish News, he worked for them as a photographer. When boxing for Ireland at the Olympics in Russia, virtually everything was free for the competitors so he had a lot of Russian money he couldn’t take home. He used it to buy an expensive camera and his new career took off from there.
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Posted: 14 Oct 2023 at 10:20am |
Great story that. RIP Hugh
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