It wasn’t so long ago Katie Taylor was talking about breaking down barriers. And in a different way, she still was a few weeks ago in New York. Her words from the New Delhi World Championships of 2006, where she won her first gold medal, would have been filtered through the four-year-old ears of Lisa O’Rourke and by Amy Broadhurst just five years older.
Now the pair from Roscommon and Louth respectively are on the brink of echoing what Taylor achieved for the first time in China and Kellie Harrington did in 2018 by becoming world champions. Broadhurst and O’Rourke won their semi-finals in Istanbul in dramatically different ways within minutes of each other.
As good news goes in troubled Irish boxing these days, it was well timed and will be received with relief as the two became the only Iri …
- May 19, 2022
