Updated 9.45pm
A MAN IN his 20s has been arrested after Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin suffered a broken leg in an attack this morning.
Nevin, who won the bantamweight silver at the 2012 London Olympics, is recovering in hospital after he was attacked in the Ardleigh area of Mullingar.
Gardaí were called to the scene of the dispute outside a house at approximately 11.30am.
Three people, including Nevin, were hospitalised following the incident. The other two injured people – a man and a woman, both in their 20s – are believed to have minor injuries.
The man in his 20s was arrested this afternoon and is being held at Mullingar Garda Station.
Gardaí have said that enquiries are ongoing and have appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
In a statement issued this evening, Nevin’s promoters GreenBlood Boxing confirmed that the boxer was injured while “attempting to act as a peacemaker” in a family dispute when he was attacked.
The injury — confirmed as a double leg break — is expected to keep the 24-year old out of the ring for between two and three months.
“Our schedule has been thrown off by a few months but hopefully we’ll have John Joe back working hard by mid-summer and have him fighting again stateside in September,” Tom Moran of GreenBlood said.
“John Joe is okay and hopefully the Garda will take care of the matter now. We were hoping to get John Joe headlining a card in Ireland in the fall but we may have to push that back some now because the big push is making him a major attraction in the Irish American audience. We have talks about New York, Boston and Philadelphia fights so we’ll keep working on it.”
Additional reporting: Christine Bohan
Originally published 2.46pm
Traveller feud no doubt. Hoping he makes a speedy recovery.
Time for an experiment. Can everyone green thumb this comment and get it into comments of the week? Will the Journal actually publish it or will they consider it racist?
Massimo’s comment obviously, not mine
Shit stirring saul !
Absolutely Rupert! Over 1000 now. Well done all
Wow saul ,I had an idea you went under a few aliases here but didn’t think it was as many. .lucky enough you have so much time on your hands ..good man
Mm. The fact that a ratio of 10 to 1 seem to jump to the conclusion of X, and it happens to be an ethnic minority says it all. Is there a racism problem in Ireland? I think it needs addressing.
Maths not your strong point Gavin? 16:1
I don’t consider my comment racist. I was not in anyway derogatory towards the travelling community. I was merely pointing out a fact that this was a feud involving travellers. Still if the comment gets enough likes it will be interesting to see if the journal will publish it in the comments of the week.
Jealous travellers from another family most likely
Great conclusion jumping there
It’s a fairly logical conclusion
Get off your pc high horse Pierce. It’s by far the most likely thing that happened.
No pierce your right… Massive assumption there….. Who do you think it was pierce
Nevins clan have a feud with the Joyce clan.
Great boast to say that you beat an olympic medalist, naturally they will leave out the multiples and the iron bars.
I am with you on this one Pierce, nothing to do with being PC. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Is this anything to do with Martin Bluebottles Nayvin? I saw a movie about that somewhere… ;-)
No conclusion jumping, exactly what happened.
Her shithed his mother is joyce so talk sense
Is that “Big” Joe Murtagh? How ya boss
What a shame a great boxer
They had to viciously attack him cause they wouldn’t have taking him in the ring! The wimps!!
Doesn’t matter if he is a traveller or not hes a excellent boxer .and a nice fella from what I hear. Hope hes ok
Their culture™
This is the man that was supposed to give good example to the children of the travelling community.
“You can’t fatten a greyhound”
or the line
“there was never a lally without a few chins”
Never heard that before
Disgraceful comments on this. If ye don’t care don’t read. Who cares if he is a traveller or if it was a traveller fued.some of the travelers in this country are better sportsmen than any settled person. His career is on the line if he’s surgery doesn’t go well he’s finished boxing. That’s the real issue for him.
You from Limerick?
Get down off your hiace there Bridgie!
If he fought back he would of lost his licence to box professionally and countless thousands in money from sponsorships and winnings , it’s a sad state of affairs he’s a great boxer .
I thought so too until I remember him and his Dad being up in court for fighting on the street and being aggressive to the Gardai before Christmas. Think he was order to do voluntary work. No mention of how that affected his licence though.
Does anyone actually care? That’s the real question
Why did you read it and comment if you didn’t care?
Because it’s on the news, I read it and it confirmed I couldn’t care less what happens any undesirable
An olympic silver medalist is an “undesirable”?
Fights happen but breaking someones leg is way over the top.
Hope he’ll be OK and that his career isn’t affected. I cheered him on in 2012 and was proud of his achievements. I can’t understand the attititude of some posters here.
Speedy recovery, a great boxer and a excellent representative for ireland in the Olympics
I’m ashamed at the comments on here. The same guys making insensitive comments here were probably once bragging about Ireland’s medal haul at London2001. #gobs€&tes
What happened in london in 2001?
Them planes flew into Big Ben ?
I am a traveller from an Irish family and the definition of my life is a crime for man to see. born as an outcast to those assigned to rule. they consider me a criminal or sometime’s a tool. to be used for there advancement. but I am no ones fool. they do not see my history or understand my pride in the family that rared me to stand strong by there side .they do not understand and can’t be forced to see that like the coming of the morning we will always be. I have tried to understand it there blinkered point of view but can’t twist my head around it to see things like they do. They live in a world where it’s each man for himself we live with our family’s who are always there to help . they think they understand us and what’s best for us to do but we are not there people we know that isn’t true .they think that we should settle stay and move no more withdraw into our shells and hide behind our doors .but I am here to tell them and I only hope they See that there kingdom will be dust before they see that change in me .for I am a proud traveller from an ancient family
How much tax do you pay? That’s the litmus test
sure tis only the few bad ones that give ye all a bad name tom – pity ye can’t oust the few bad ones from your wonderfull culture that has added so much to soceity as a whole – and i would be delighted if you could give me some examples of your history and culture that you have so eloquently alluded to but not decribed in any detail.
Now THAT’S sarcasm Brendan! Class
:)))
Brendan I never mentioned the word culture and i think you’ll find that like the phrase settled community it was coined by the press and not any traveller but if you have any honest questions I’ll try to answer them as best I can
Dexter Where did you lose them I’ll help you find them but there probably on someone else’s house by now so not sure I can help. did you get much on your insurance claim after you (lost them)
Ts again!!
Speedy recovery, a great boxer and a excellent representative for ireland in the Olympics
Disgraceful
Is it on Pulse??
Its in their nature.
Fair fight my H*le.
One on one i don’t think so.
Fair fight i don’t think so.
One on one i wouldn’t think so.
All the best Johnjoe.
I heard he woke up drunk and fell out the front door of his house… while it was moving.
It happened in the Golf Club, a Woman stabbed…