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Even if you have no interest in the sport or even little understanding of why someone would step into a ring and voluntarily have somebody else do their damnedest to hurt you for eight or nine minutes, you have probably still found it hard not to have been impressed by the way that Katie Taylor et al in the Irish boxing team have lifted the sprits of the nation over the past week.

Former international swimmer Deirdre Hughes has beaten the best in the world in their own back yard last week, winning five gold medals in the New South Wales Masters State Championships in Australia.