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What's the best sport in the world? The Mammy of Irish Boxing, Anna Moore knows. Watch the full IABA: Seconds Out documentary, honouring Anna's decades long commitment to our sport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqRCuHyXO2k | Boxing Ireland

The Mammy of Irish Boxing, so named by Kellie Harrington during the Tokyo Olympics, is being celebrated for her vast contribution to Irish Boxing with a keynote film released to mark International Women’s Day. Anna Moore, of St. Francis Boxing Club, Limerick, joined the Irish Boxing Family in the late 1960s, and was a vital force in the development of women’s boxing in Ireland. Women’s boxing here is 23 years old this year – the first women’s competitive bout took place on Hallowe’en night, 2001