Knuckle

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Growing up, in a traditional Gypsy caravan in Ireland, fighting was in my blood. I was interested in amateur boxing as a lad. Mcdonagh chose boxing to reduce bullying both within the community and on the outskirts. He moved to England as a sixteen-year-old in 1983. Det Insp Marry told the court there was a gash to her forehead and a large amount of blood on the walls and ceiling. There are many men out there at the moment - very good men - who could claim to be the 'King of the Travellers' but don't do it because, number one, it sets you up for being challenged for the foreseeable future.

This film follows 12 years in the lives of three Irish Traveller families (Joyces, Nevins, and Quinn-McDonaghs) and their bitter feuds and fights. The film explores the reasons why they hold these fights and explores in-depth these families' secret life, which is barely known to outsiders of the Traveller community. The real reason for the feud among the families is never revealed, as they will not talk about it to outsiders. Gardai are investigating a number of possible motives behind an apparent "punishment" shooting in Dundalk late on Monday night. Relatives of Mr Jimmy Quinn McDonagh said he was pinned to the ground by five masked men who fired two shots at him. He had an operation to remove a bullet from his leg in St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, yesterday.Meanwhile, the girls, including my sister in her wedding dress, stayed inside. The women in our families never watch the fights. My second fight was with Ditsy’s cousin, a year after the wedding. I beat him after 47 minutes of brawling.

Det Insp Marry took a statement from Dr Curtis after the post mortem at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in August 2012, which he read to the court.That’s a good question. I fought Nevins and Joyces and in both families there are tough guys, but thank God I was just that little bit extra above them—not saying that I’m any good, not saying that I’m bad or I’m good. There was tough guys there. I fought a guy called Ditsy Nevin. It was my first fight. He was supposedly King of the Nevins. He lost in three minutes. I went on and fought his cousin and it lasted 47 minutes; I wasn’t ready in my training at the time. I found my second wind and I continued to fight and it lasted 47 minutes. That was good. And I had fights that lasted 7 minutes, 14 minutes, 22 minutes, and my last fight was against my first opponent’s son. I was 10 years older than the son; the son was about 27 at the time, I was 37. I had to take that challenge to give the family respect because I fought his dad when his dad was a few years older than me, and that [final] fight lasted for two hours, 47 minutes. So that would probably be my toughest, physically and mentally.