Nicola Tallant

they had no interest in covering it.

Like you really have, you know, they had to be persuaded to do so.

And, you know, that band that MTK and Sandra Vaughan, you know, were announced on the Irish media, that was quite ugly in that it was a partitionist band, a band.

Like, I don't think media outlets north of the border acquitted themselves well, but they carried on as if nothing had happened.

Mm-hmm.

And I think, you know, where was the solidarity?

Because this was, and I've never bought into this thing that sports or sports journalism operates in a vacuum.

You can't say, oh, that story is a front page story.

We just talked to the boxers and we're here to promote, tell their stories and promote it.

You can't ignore a story like Daniel Kinnan and boxing because there are very few global sports, truly global sports, like outside of football.

But everywhere you go in the world where there's Asia-

South America, Africa, all over the States, all over Eastern Europe, all over Western Europe, you will find boxing clubs.

And this guy was the power broker within the sport.

Yeah, there's just something.

Could I jump in there, Joe?

Please, yeah.

Yeah, it just came into my head there.

But I got my hands on a contract that an anti-gay global fighter signed.

And there was an interesting clause in it.

There was a clause in it that Daniel Kinnan was to be publicly thanked and praised in interviews and in social media polls.