MUHAMMAD ALI WAS pretty impressed by what he saw in Ireland if the 1972 footage above is anything to go by.
The boxing legend, who has passed away at the age of 74, marvelled at a country that was greener than “even Kentucky,” whiskey which “takes a long time to make” but doesn’t “take long to drink” and the “pretty rough” Gaelic footballers and hurlers.
The Kentucky-born boxer was in the country for his fight with Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in Croke Park, which he subsequently won by TKO in the 11th round.
It was not the only time the sporting icon came to Ireland. In 2009, he visited Ennis, Co Clare, his ancestral home — Ali’s great-grandfather, Abe Grady, had emigrated to the US from Ireland in the 1860s.
A crowd of 10,000 turned out for a civic reception to mark Ali’s visit, with the boxing legend subsequently being made the first Honorary Freeman of Ennis.
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The tunnel between the Davin and Cusack stand in Croke Park is named after him, when he was here for the special Olympics he requested that he could enter via the tunnel named after him
R.I.P legend
Strangely enough I don’t think he revealed his Irish heritage until 5 years or so after that fight in croke park.
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What is that excerpt where he is talking about hurling from?
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