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DAVID Ryan is the BUI Celtic super lightweight champion after a night of huge drama in Dublin. His title fight with Tony McGlynn was a real epic, but even its drama was overshadowed by the events that followed the final bell. While referee Emile Tiedt appeared to be raising Ryan’s hand, Tony McGlynn was announced as the winner on a scoreline of 78-73, to the consternation of the Ryan supporters in the crowd. However that announcement was a mistake, due to a very unfortunate breakdown in communication,  and it was later confirmed that Ryan is the new champion. Clare fight fans will naturally be delighted that Ryan was the winner, and he did deserve the victory, but one would have to have huge sympathy for McGlynn who was thrown from elation into despair. From the first bell this was a completely absorbing fight, and the two fighters setting an electric pace from the outset. McGlynn started well and probably took …

THURSDAY afternoon in Shannon. The boxing club is upstairs, they say in SKB Gerdy’s Community Gym, go around the back and go up. An unpromising looking door does open, and David Ryan is there waiting. Work on developing the room hasn’t finished, quite clearly, but the ring is up and it’s within its confines that Ryan will do much of his preparations for the first title fight as a professional boxer, when he takes on Tony McGlynn for the BUI Celtic Super Lightweight belt on May 10. While he sees the belt as a stepping stone to greater things, winning it would be a milestone for a fighter who went straight from kickboxing into professional boxing in 2022. The preparation involved in prizefighting is as intense if not more so than for any sport on earth, and Ryan has to do it while working full time; he is a familiar figure to many in Shannon from his job at Denver …