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"Rinty" Monaghan became the world flyweight boxing champion at the Kings Hall, Belfast in 1948 and retired undefeated in 1950 at the end of a sixteen-year professional boxing career in which he fought sixty-six contests, winning fifty-one, drawing six others and being beaten only nine times.

John Joseph Monaghan was born on 21 August 1918 at 23 Lancaster Street, Belfast and, after marrying Frances Thompson in 1938, he moved to Little Corporation Street, in the Docklands area of the city.

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There he raised his three daughters, Martha, Rosetta and Colette and son, Sean, and lived for the rest of his life. Earlier, while still at school in St Patrick's Christian Brothers at Donegall Street, aged just 11, he began taking part in street boxing contests earning a fish and chip supper when he won.

By the time he was fourteen he was picking up purses of a few shillings for victories and at the age of fourteen was well