John Cooney

by extension, the misuse of phrases

and the misuse of words and the overuse of words glorification for every second person you meet or come across it just it just devalues the words to me in in many many ways now i understand emotion and at this stage of life i get it probably more than i've ever have i understand the highs i understand the lows i understand the winning and the losing and in turn the emotion the emotion that goes with with each one of those I've cried tears for wins, I've cried tears for losses and recently whether it was John Cooney, whether it was Glenn Byrne or whether it was Lee Reeves.

Not to mention tears that flow of a very different kind in the personal and the real world.

In a few moments you're going to hear from today's guest Louise Craven who has fought a fight far harder than anything you will ever find in a boxing ring or in a boxing environment.

But I think about some of the things that have happened that have affected people's health in recent years.

Some of the fighters who've had to quit because of, brain injuries or brain scans going awry and then even in the last year or two you've had the fatality up in Belfast with John Cooney you've had Dylan Moran last year it was only about a year ago having to fight after a brain bleed following a bout with Tyrone McKenna Tyrone McKenna who you know arguably has gone on too long and was just put in with Paddy Donovan who's a killer, and he gets out unscathed, thank God, but, you know, hopefully he's not in any more fights like that with heavy-handed people who are going to shorten his, you know, could give him trouble later in life, you don't know, but you've got, you know, the brain bleed there for Glenn, you've got the brain bleed now for Lee Reeves, who, I'm not really sure of Libri's current status and we don't expect it, but he's still facing, let's call it, a very long road to recovery.

Yeah, I've been keeping

in touch with Jonathan O'Brien since day one and I speak to Jonathan regularly.