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Documentary On One - Michael Gomez: The Irish Mexican

Michael Armstrong was born on the side of a road in Longford. His blind father, driving his mother to hospital, crashed and Michael was delivered there and then. Years later, a Sky Sports TV interviewer asked him; “You were born on the side of the road, brought up in care homes – it’s some story?” “That’s not a story”, Gomez replied, “That was real life.” Michael Gomez would fight 48 times making him a legendary figure in the Irish boxing world. Former world champion Bernard Dunne travels to Manchester to find out the true story of Michael Gomez.



Festival
Inverness 2015
Title
Documentary On One - Michael Gomez: The Irish Mexican
Entry Category
Radio Sports
Produced By
RTÉ Radio 1
Producer
Ciaran Cassidy and Bernard Dunne
Directed By
n/a