Katie Taylor: I’m not going to step away from boxing completely
Katie Taylor does not plan to step away from boxing completely, with moves into coaching and punditry both possibilities for the retired fighter.
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Katie Taylor named Sportswoman of the Month for September
It was back in early 2005 that an email came in from a man we’ll call only Mick, lest he find himself admonished. “Have you done anything on this Katie Taylor girl yet, Ireland’s first female boxer? She’s a full Irish soccer international too, great looking moth.” Mick signed off by forecasting that we’d hear plenty about her in the future.
Chloe Mustaki: Ireland defender enjoying best spell of career ahead of Kazakhstan playoff
It’s a whole 17 years since the Republic of Ireland’s women played in Kazakhstan, the game proving to be the last in the senior international career of one of their midfielders who had decided to focus on another sport. She did all right at it too, did Katie Taylor.
‘To do this job, you need to be supported’: Kate O’Connor backs call for athlete tax break
Kate O’Connor has been busy putting her mastery in multi-events to other uses since winning her European heptathlon gold in Birmingham last month. Between attending Electric Picnic, Katie Taylor’s farewell fight at Croke Park, the recent Athlos meeting, and London Fashion Week, she’s been turning on her style in other ways too.
Backing Katie Taylor’s big night was no gamble for Lidl
An enduring image of Katie Taylor’s Croke Park farewell fight will her gloves resting on the canvas after victory over Flora Pili. A 25-year boxing career, 10 of those as a pro, was over.
The five main stumbling blocks on the road to Gaelic games integration
It was going to take something remarkable for the dial to move from Croke Park hosting the most celebrated event in the history of Irish women’s sport to, just five days later, the GAA president appearing on the national airwaves defending the association against accusations of misogyny.
Katie Taylor feelgood factor gives way to grim and difficult month for Irish sport
If Katie Taylor gave us a script the country so desperately wanted on Saturday night then the abiding memories of an historic occasion in Croke Park won’t, can’t, be restricted to the ring that served as the stage for her last act as a boxer.
Peak audience of 1.6 million watch Katie Taylor’s historic fight at Croke Park
A peak audience of 1.6 million tuned in to watch Katie Taylor end her incredible boxing career on the biggest of highs last Saturday night.