Joe Molloy

It felt to me like schoolyard bullying or something like that.

And a lot of his supporters within the boxing arena got involved with it, you know, be it on social media or things they were saying.

And it was quite a threatening environment.

Was he quick with legal threats too?

Yes, there was legal threats.

There was legal threats coming.

He employed a big firm in the UK.

And he certainly didn't, they didn't go anywhere, but it wasn't very comfortable to be getting a legal threat from the head of an international drug cartel, which was worth billions, you know.

So all of that was used.

And of course, for the sports journalists here in Ireland, didn't Sandra Vaughan ban, put a ban on them?

There was no interviews to be given.

I mean, it is all a very much kind of

bullying.

Ciarán it's well known I think that there were no big time professional fights in Dublin from

Well, certainly the Regency, but I guess, you know, even Bernard Dunn through until the Chantal Cameron, Katie Taylor fights in 23 and maybe another Crowe Park one now.

But certainly there was a lost decade in there somewhere when it came to big time professional fighting.

So that was one consequence of MTK and Kinahan.

Has it damaged the sport of boxing beyond that on the ground from what you've heard?

Would you not say, though, that's a consequence of the direction of media generally?

Like, golf journalists aren't being replaced either?