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Darren Sutherland R.I.P

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  • #2
    Kev M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Kev M


    That's terrible news, I'm shocked to hear it. He was a class act.


  • #3
    Al_Fernz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    I knew a girl who knew him. Absolutely lovely guy and really down to earth. An awful and tragic loss for Irish sport.


  • #4
    Rocket!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭Rocket!


    I know someone who knew him too and they had nothing but praise for him. He was much loved around DCU. Unbelievably sad news. RIP


  • #5
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Jesus another Darren Sutherland R.I.P. thread.


    Make it stop.


  • #6
    Al_Fernz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭Al_Fernz


    FearDark wrote: »
    Make it stop.

    Viewing and commenting on a thread you want to stop? Good Sir if you do not see the folly in this then you also have my deepest sympathies.


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  • #7
    celestial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭celestial


    FearDark wrote: »
    Jesus another Darren Sutherland R.I.P. thread.


    Make it stop.


    Great contribution


  • #8
    celestial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭celestial


    This is a real shock. When I read the first bit of the report I thought they were gonna say he died in his sleep or something. Crazy.


  • #9
    cowzerp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    Very sad loss for Irish boxing and irish sport.

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    This lad knew what hard work was about.

    Boxed in the morning, college during the day, part time job, more boxing and training - Serious athlete.

    R.I.P.


  • #11
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    FearDark wrote: »
    Jesus another Darren Sutherland R.I.P. thread.


    Make it stop.

    If you've nothing to contribute, keep the hell out. Nobody's forcing you to read it.


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  • #12
    Transform
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,394 ✭✭✭Transform


    total inspiration to all athletes and people who enjoy sports everywhere
    RIP


  • #13
    _JOE_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭_JOE_


    He truly was a talent...We won't see a middleweight of his quality for quite a while...


  • #14
    NFH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭NFH


    What exactly are the details surrounding his death? Was it suicide, accident, suspicious. Nothin really has come out about why or how this happend.


  • #15
    Kev M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Kev M


    NFH wrote: »
    What exactly are the details surrounding his death? Was it suicide, accident, suspicious. Nothin really has come out about why or how this happend.

    I believe police are treating it as not suspicious, which often indicates suicide... but I don't really know. Any which way whatever happened is unfortunate and a huge loss.


  • #16
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    NFH wrote: »
    Was it suicide

    It was yeah. Found hanging + not suspicious = suicide.


  • #17
    corkcomp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭corkcomp


    Khannie wrote: »
    It was yeah. Found hanging + not suspicious = suicide.

    yeah it defo sounds like it!

    on a serious note, RIP


  • #18
    the drifter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,348 ✭✭✭the drifter


    Source breakingnews.ie

    Boxer Darren Sutherland was a role model to children by returning to the classroom to get into university, it was claimed tonight.

    Donning a school uniform the young fighter went to St Peter’s College in Dunboyne, Co Meath, at age 20 to pass his Leaving Certificate, before securing a scholarship to Dublin City University.

    Maureen Murray, St Peter’s vice-principal, said Darren was a dedicated student who worked hard.

    “I have to say he cut a great figure in the uniform, he was always extremely smart and extremely well turned out,” Ms Murray said.

    “He was essentially a role model for an awful lot of the children who looked at him and saw here is a guy, he’s coming back in, he’s much older than us, but yet he’s doing everything that’s expected of him.”

    Ms Murray said he was a popular figure with pupils, helping out at various school discos.

    Darren clinched his Leaving Certificate and was awarded a sports scholarship to DCU in north Dublin in 2003 to study Sports Science and Health.

    Despite putting his degree on hold when he turned professional the young fighter was on track to come out with top marks.

    His lecturer John Kerrane, who teaches sociology of sport, said the 27-year-old was as dedicated and focused on his studies as his sporting life.

    “He was an excellent student, a first class honours student. He brought an outstanding focus and when he was doing something he gave it 100%, and he certainly brought that to his study,” Mr Kerrane said.

    “He had outstanding potential as a student. Once he focused on it, there would be no barriers to him.”

    To help balance the demands of his college work and training, the university allowed him to carry out his second year over two years as he prepared for the Beijing Olympics.

    But although he secured top marks in his second year Mr Kerrane said Darren felt frustrated juggling sport and studies as he couldn’t devote all his time to both.

    “He was so ambitious in both that he found it quite frustrating not to be able to give 100% to both,” Mr Kerrane said.

    “That’s the type of personality he was.”

    To help balance the pressures of academia and sport he would turn to his DCU mentor Dr Giles Warrington, a sport and exercise physiologist.

    “He was an incredibly outward going confident guy, but he was also a very private individual,” Dr Warrington said.

    “Everybody always saw this very public side of him, but he was a very reserved private person as well.”

    Dr Warrington said he was articulate and driven and recalled another lecturer once said: “If this guy can box as well as he can talk, he’s going to be a world champion.”

    “Irrespective of Darren, for a lot of students just following an undergraduate degree is tough enough, let alone trying to fulfil a full-time boxing career,” the top physiologist said.

    “This guy, at times I’m sure he was frustrated, but he did this with aplomb.”


  • #19
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    FearDark wrote: »
    Jesus another Darren Sutherland R.I.P. thread.


    Make it stop.
    How insensitive.

    Bad karma sir, bad karma.


  • #20
    villager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭villager


    may he rest in peace.

    what an awful waste of a great future.


  • #21
    ragg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭ragg


    Just wrote in the boxing forum that I hope we get the chance to mark his passing at the Dunne fight next week, really hope we do!! Sad, sad day. An inspiration, a sports man with the perfect mix of desire, talent, personality & willingness to put in the work. I can only imagine what was in head yesterday, its such a shame and as a country we have lost one of our few world class sportsmen - RIP Dazzler


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