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IRISH BOXER JOHN Cooney has died at the age of 28 after suffering a brain injury during a professional bout in Belfast last Saturday.
Advertisement Cooney had won all 10 of his previous professional bouts before he was defeated by Howells. The Clarinbridge man received medical attention from the ringside doctor at Ulster Hall before being stretchered out of the arena and rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital. Cooney’s manager-promoter, Belfast man Mark Dunlop, confirmed the tragic news this evening that the popular boxer known as ‘The Kid’ had passed away.
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