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Boxing world mourns promoter Mike.


Byline: VICTORIA MCMAHON

THE great and good of the boxing world gathered to pay their respects to promoter Mike Callahan yesterday.

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 as well known faces from Northern Ireland's sporting fraternity said their goodbyes at Newington Presbyterian Church in North Belfast.

Former champion boxer Eammon Magee, Commonwealth champion Paul McCluskey, and former champ

Ray Close, helped to shoulder the coffin of Mr Callahan, who passed away last Friday after battling a long illness.

The promoter, who managed such greats as Barney Eastwood, has been credited as one of the main players in turning Belfast into a boxing hotbed.

Martin Rogan, who is defending his Commonwealth Heavyweight heavyweight - High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane  title on Friday at the Odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer.

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RESPECTED Mike SADDENED Boxer Martin Rogan pays respects FAREWELL Boxers Eammon Magee and Paul McCluskey carry Mike's coffin yesterday SADDENED Boxer Martin Rogan pays respects FAREWELL Boxers Eammon Magee and Paul McCluskey carry Mike's coffin yesterday
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:May 12, 2009
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