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Half century for Holy Trinity

HOLY TRINITY ABC are celebrating 50 years of changing lives. The West Belfast club stage a gala ball at the city’s Balmoral Hotel on Saturday, October 22 after staging a ‘Big Picture Show’ last month where the Holy Trinity story was told through photographs taken over the last half a century.

Brian Magee, Damien Denny and Caoimhin Agyarko were among the champions and former champions at the ‘Big Picture Show’ and for Sean McComb, it must have had the look of a family album. McComb grew up around 100 yards from the gym and headed there aged eight,

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