Kieran Joyce was a great bit of stuff. He featured regularly on Sports Stadium back then. A real old school brawler if i remember correctly
It was very big because it was a race type thing. Also the Irish American angle. I can picture the time magazine spread on it. I think it said something like ācooney has the big bat , butā¦ā
Iāll see if I can Google it
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Actually not race as such, but there was definitely a āgreat white hopeā element
I have a good memory, but these heavyweight fights were massive events back in the day. I also remember watching the Thriller in Manila and the Rumble in the Jungle in the middle of the night on a black and white telly. Itās amazing how far back boxing has receded in the public consciousness in my lifetime.
Reg Gutteridge and Jim Watt commentating on ITV on Hagler, Hearnes, Leonard and Duran was a must watch.
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Thereās a famous Waterfordian mentioned on that page as well.
Louis Stewart yeah
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That time article is actually well worth a read. Just read it there.
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I use it mostly to self reminisce about my glittering underage career 
And of course the feature on the Pioneer Quiz champions, one lone second year in a sea of fifth and sixth yearsers 
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Iād say the British middleweight fights of the early 90s was my generations must see fights
I was on our school quiz team. Pioneer, Scor na nOg and Bank of Ireland. Bank of Ireland was the big one and thereād be crowd in the ball room of the Tower Hotel. A fellow came up to me in the Guillomene one time and asked me was I captain of the Mount Sion quiz team. 40 years after the event.
There was one scandal I havenāt spoken about until now. One of our teachers (Ching he looked a bit Chinese) took us into a room one day. He was setting the questions for that nights Pioneer quiz and he went through all the answers with us. It was ridiculous on the night and some of the other teams smelled a rat but they couldnāt prove anything. Ching died shortly after from a brain tumour so he probably wasnāt right in the head.
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I did Scor, Pioneer and ultimately Cross Country Quiz (winner). Won counties in Scor and Pioneer but could never get over the line in Munster. We had a teacher in National school Seanie OāConnor who used to do quizzes after lunch with us Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In Irish on the Wednesday. The class split into two standing teams the Volunteers and The Invincibles. He used to be the local Guinness Pub quiz quizmaster so used to give us those questions. A few years later I was a gun for hire on pub quiz teams before becoming a regular for Paddy McAuluffes quiz team.
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I donāt remember much about the Pioneer Quiz really, the echo had a picture and a small write up, my brother was captain and I was the baby, only in second year, so I would have been 13.
I won my school mastermind the same year, beating my brother in the grand final, he gave me a hiding that evening, I deserved it I suppose, I gave him an unmerciful piss taking
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We lost the County Limerick scor quiz one year over in Knocklong because a future Limerick hurler didnāt know how many sides were on a hexagon. I was bulling.
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Was it Dave Clarke?
Clarkey wouldnāt go in for that sort of thing.
No itās 6
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And Houla wouldnāt either.
Another thread turns into Limerick in the rare aul times
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