Derval (Presenter)
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1,228 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Sep
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Tonight is the night and boxer Katie Taylor will enter a sold-out Crook Park for her last ever fight in a bid to become a three time undisputed champion.
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And I'm joined now by RTE Sports Jackie Hurley, who will be presenting tonight's radio coverage on RTE two FM.
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Jackie, I know you spoke to Katie Taylor earlier this week and she sounded really emotional, but Crook Park, this this really is the grand finale she dreamed of.
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Isn't it?
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But we'll all be keeping our emotions in check when she walks out.
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What was she like when you got to sit down on on that one to one with her?
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Very reflective actually, I think.
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And it's really interesting 'cause sometimes when you think of boxing or boxing adjacent sports, Jackie, um, it's all bravado, you know, it's you know, you've got the trash talk and the squaring up and what's so striking about Katie um is just her humility um yeah and the nearly the sacredness with which she approaches the sport.
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Do we know who's going to be there tonight? 'Cause I know you were the colour reporter for their the the London fight in twenty twelve and there was loads of sports people and celebs who were showing up for it.
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Like obviously the whole country is showing up for I think over a million people are gonna watch it on Irish television at least.
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But um are we sp are you gonna be celeb spotting tonight?
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they said she couldn't, oh, you know, it'll top it off at fifty five thousand.
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But it's so interesting that you've mentioned all of those other great art sports heroines.
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I see c um Clina uh has a piece in the art examiner kind of looking at them.
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But what really struck me this morning was just the amount of pictures of young girls and young kids.
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Yeah.
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The the legacy of Kitty Taylor.
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I was looking at the uh ceremonial way ins, you know, yesterday and I was going, God, she may be forty, but she looks absolutely fantastic.
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Her opponent, the undefeated um French uh boxer Flora Pilly, is twenty nine, but Kitty says forty is the new thirty.
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Well, she certainly looks
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