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Rocky Ros Muc

    • Director

      Michael Fanning

    • Principal Cast

      Seán Mannion, Rónón Mac Con Iomaire, Patrick Nee, Mayor Marty Walsh

  • Category

    Feature
    Documentary

Seán Mannion, a talented boxer from the quiet Gaeltacht village of Ros Muc, Co Galway, left Ireland for Boston in the 1970s and rose to the heights of New York’s Madison Square Gardens where, in October 1984, he fought for the WBA light middleweight crown.

This is the story of his life inside and outside the ring. It is a story about the complexity of exile, about survival, honour, and community which he shares with thousands of emigrants like him.

Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn

92 minutes, Ireland, 2017, Colour


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