Looking Back: Kilcullen Boxing Club
Another look back at the Kilcullen Boxing Club, the picture courtesy of Eamonn Lynch, this time probably around 1960 with the club's Olympian Colm McCoy up front and centre, writes Brian Byrne.
Behind him is my Dad, Jim Byrne Jr, club president for many years and then in his bow tie phase.
I don't have all the names to mind, but a lot of the young boxers' faces are familiar as today's adults. Also there, though, are club stalwarts Hugh Peacocke, Cyril Russel, Paddy Aspell and Paddy Bathe.
The photo caption is, Back: Christy Meaney, Mr McCoy, Jim Byrne, Pat Lynch, Tommy Orford; Middle: Hugh Peacocke, John McCoy, Colm McCoy, Capt Cyril Russel, Paddy Aspell, Paddy Bathe; Front: Tommy Howard, Art McCoy, Tony Aspell, Eamon Lynch, Christy Howard, Tommy Morris.
