By the End That Medal Weighed Heavy On Poor Darren [Eire Region]

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SUICIDE has stopped the clocks in too many Irish houses. The deaths of young men who share an age-group with Darren Sutherland have become tearful dates for enough families to give us an idea of the incomprehension the Sutherlands feel today. 'Why' is a small but haunting word in these homes.

There is no revelatory answer being hawked here, but the switch in Sutherland's career circumstances over the past 13 months brought him from a life of buzzing bodies to a place far more solitary. As part of the Irish team in Beijing, Sutherland had come through the lauded high performance unit. This saw Ireland's best hot-housed in a gym in Dublin.

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By the End That Medal Weighed Heavy On Poor Darren [Eire Region]

Fighters had no help in punching a bag or skipping a rope, but there was a man feeding off the same dream never too far away. And in Gary Keegan, Billy Walsh and Zaur Antia, there were...

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