Taosieach, Micheal Martin, has formally opened Cove Boxing Club’s new clubhouse in his native cork.
The Taoiseach’s family has a long boxing tradition, culminating in the national and international achievements of his father, Paddy “The Champ” Martin, of Cork’s Glen Boxing Club. In 2024, Mr. Martin was named “Cork Boxing Personality of The Year”.
The opening of the new clubhouse is testament to the work of the club, its committee and its supporters over many years. Congratulations to all.
In a statement on social media, Cove Boxing Club says “Our club secretary Ronan Malone…acknowledged all those who contributed to its success and thanked everyone who played their part over the past number of years, he thanked our previous landlords the Aherns in Belvelly who believed in us at the beginning and gave us a place to call home, he thanked John and Donna our new landlords for giving us this fantastic opportunity with a location accessible to all, he acknowledged Albert Mc Groarty, father of Mark and Grandfather of Luke both involved in the club today, who gave his life to Cove Boxing Club and thanked him for his service.
Dominic Finn spoke very highly of our club and it’s success so far, Dominic who has play an instrumental part of getting access to this fantastic building and who has supported us along this journey is something we will never forget and we thank him for his hard work. Dominic acknowledged the hard work that has been done by the members and volunteers and the huge benefit this club is to the wider Cobh Community.
We were honoured and privileged to have our Taoiseach Micheál Martin open our club house today and we thank him for taking time out of his busy schedule to help celebrate this momentus occasion, we thank him for his kind words.
Cork Boxing County Board President Mick O’ Brien spoke passionately about Cork Boxing and how important it was to have an Taoiseach present today, he spoke on how important days like today were to this fantastic sport, he congradulated Cobh Bc on its success today and over the past number of years he mentioned that Cobh was known as the Great Island and Cove Bc has just made it greater.
We thank the Cork County board for all their support. On behalf of Cove Bc Executive Committee we would like to thank all those who has helped us along the way.”
All images: John Wiseman, Cork County Board Secretary.