The old boxing saw proved its timeless quality in Galway on Monday night.

I got the impression it was like an old boxing match.

They have the classic coach-athlete relationship, just like an old boxing guru and a young prizefighter.

Jimmy Bègue, a 17-year- old boxing champion, fought off the youths who demanded money from him after school.

For one it was a game of shadow-boxing, for the other a game of plain old boxing.

A kid of a year old boxing!

A young fellow turned up who was a second-rate prize-fighter, the son of one of my old boxing teachers.

As the game went into extra-time on Sunday, it was like the old boxing matches that went 15 rounds.

But if, as the old boxing phrase goes -styles make matches -thisshould be an old fashioned ground and pound game.

For Harris, this is the ultimate challenge: a script he has written, starring himself as himself, going back to his old boxing days.

The 33-year- old boxing star known as "Blonde Bomber" has amassed a huge following all over the world through her sassy social media promotion.