<- How did this cunt get the job as RTE's Boxing Correspondant? Did they pick his name out from a hat or something? His lack of anything approaching a personality surely makes him the worst possible candidate to be sent out to Greece to follow the actions of Ireland's Olympic boxing hopefuls. His ineptitude is just plain embarassing.
Anyway, well done to John Joe Nevin on securing an Olympics berth. That's two Olympians from poor backgrounds in the midlands - and literally from the same Council estate in Mullingar - on their way to Beijing. Nevin joins long distance runner Mark Fagan on the plane over to the promised land.
The Nevin family name has been dragged through the mud in recent years by the actions of some members of John Joe's distant family - and some of their cousins - and he could easily have been led down a path which currently leads directly to a massive ongoing turf war in Mullingar, Athlone and Longford, but like Galway man Francie Barrett before him, John Joe and his father were not afraid to break the mould, and their dedication and belief in what they were doing has led them closer to the ultimate prize. Hopefully more will follow them over.
All in all, it's a terrific time to be involved in Irish boxing, with Dunne, Duddy, Lee and a host of others all impressing greatly in the past year, but why RTE (who have an enviable amount of talent in their sports dept) have chosen the most clueless, charmless, rural pitchside reporter, a king of inept, unimaginative, unthoughtout quips, to be their ringside man is beyond contemplation..
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