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Highest honour
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Volume VII, Issue I
Limerick boxer’s ‘ring of destiny’
• Andy Lee spurred by dream of a champion’s homecoming
EXCLUSIVE Jack W McCarron AS THE hours tick down to Andy Lee’s world boxing title shot this weekend, the Castleconnell boxer revealed that to return to Limerick as champion was his “ultimate dream”. Granting the Limerick Voice an exclusive interview, Lee said that even when he left Limerick at 21 he was spurred by a dream to come back home as ‘the champ’. Castleconnell native Lee (30) faces Russian Matt Korobov for the vacant World Boxing Organisation middleweight title in Las Vegas this Saturday, December 13. “I left Limerick at 20 or 21, and that was the dream I had; to come
back a world champion,” he told the Limerick Voice. Speaking from his training camp in Monaco, Andy said: “Hopefully the dream will come true. It’s been a long, hard road. It would be an accumulation of all the hard work.” Meanwhile, Andy’s mum Ann, who won’t be in Vegas, feels as if Andy will have a ‘home advantage’. “His brothers Ned and Roger are going over. Funnily enough, my grandfather’s brother emigrated to the US years ago and his family live in Reno, so they made the connection a few years ago and they’re all going to meet up for the fight,” she said.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Look who had us around for lunch...
Dominic West (centre) may be the globally recognisable star of The Wire, but in Glin, Co Limerick, he is simply “Catherine’s husband”. West, his wife, Catherine Fitzgerald (right), and mother-in-law, Madam Olda Willes Fitzgerald (left), widow of the last Knight of Glin, and Sooty the dog, welcomed Limerick Voice reporters Fintan Walsh and Jessica Leen to the Fitzgerald family’s home, Glin Castle. See LIFESTYLE: Page 31-32 Picture: Jessica Leen
School defends its ‘turkeys for Christmas’ student project LIMERICK students will feast on nine free-range Christmas turkeys next week—thanks to the hard work of classmates who reared the birds in their schoolyard coop, writes Fintan Walsh. This is all part of the Crescent College Comprehensive special project aimed at giving city students handson experience of life on a farm. One-hundred-andfifty Transition Year (TY) students have fed and cared for the turkeys during this term.
The school’s PE teacher Sean O’Callaghan said: “The idea of the project is to teach the kids, who are mainly from the city, that they can do this kind of work from scratch. “The students, with the help from the home economics teacher, cook the turkeys themselves, and they eat the Christmas dinner in the canteen. They decorate the whole place and they really go to town on it.” Contd: Page 2
Crescent says its turkey coop programme is a “strong component” of its agriculture science module and has run for five years. Picture: Jessica Leen
JOHN B KEANE’S LIMERICK CONNECTIONS ‘Every column he wrote has stood the test of time’: Page 33