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Tue 08 Aug 2008Boxers offer a window into our marginalised society
The admirable qualities of working-class communities are ignored by wider society outside of the Olympics, writes Fintan O'Toole
THERE IS a strange silence about one of the most obvious aspects of Ireland's Olympics: social class. It expresses an underlying discomfort.
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