'Dear Katie, how far we have come...' - Taylor gets reply from her hero
Ireland's first female world champion writes a letter to Katie Taylor, 30 years after receiving one from her.
In 1996, a young Irish girl named Katie Taylor wrote a letter to her hero, Deirdre Gogarty, expressing her disappointment that there were almost no opportunities for women in boxing in Ireland. She hoped that one day, they would even let women box in the Olympics. Fast forward to 2012, and Katie Taylor rose to the occasion, becoming an integral part of getting women's boxing into the Olympics, winning a gold medal in the process.
As Katie prepares to retire and face Flora Pili in a sold-out Croke Park, Gogarty reflects on how far they have come. It has been 39 years since Gogarty first set foot in a boxing gym in Drogheda, when she was told that women would never be accepted in boxing.
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