Una Kelly

Yes, Ciarán, well, I think there was just a feeling of a lot of goodwill towards Katie in the room.

People were applauding when she came out.

But I think people will know that Katie Taylor herself, the way that she carries herself, tends to be fairly low-key and pretty humble.

And you'll have heard in that clip there the kind of reverence she has for this Croke Park fight calling it the Cathedral Rite.

of Irish sport she did also say that she's not doing this for herself she's doing it for the nation who supported her and Irish people buying into women's boxing and she thanked everyone for the respect that's been given to her as well she did describe Flora Pilly as a dangerous opponent and said that that's going to be a real challenge but she did also say that she fully intends to end on a career best performance so who else was down there at it what were they saying

Yeah, well, we would have heard there Eddie Hearn as well, the promoter.

And look, if I had a euro for every time the word the greatest has been used at this press conference, I'd be doing quite well for myself.

He talked, of course, about the greatest moment in the history of female boxing.

He talked about paying tribute to the Irish people in terms of the support that they've given Katie.

And just emphasising that the last person to fight...

croak park was muhammad ali and he says this will never happen again and he ended uh his chat by saying we can't leave this sport without being victorious at croak park we also had brian peters that's katie taylor's manager he didn't uh have that much to say because he was quite emotional actually at times when he was paying tribute both to katie and to eddie hair and he had to

to stop to take a drink of water and to steady himself.

Peter McKenna, the stadium director for Croke Park, was also up on the podium.

Now, others, Eddie, Peter Aitken and Eddie Hearn, had made references to the negotiations there, saying that it...

It hadn't always been easy and there was so much back and forth with Croke Park, but here they are.

And then Flora Pilly herself as well.

She was speaking in French and that was then translated.

She said it's a dream come true to fight Katie and described her as a legend of the sport.

But she said, I'm coming here to make a name for myself.

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