There's no-one as Irish as... Muhammad Ali?


	There's no-one as Irish as... Muhammad Ali?

Lexica

9-6-2009 5:52 PM

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ireland, muhammed-ali

Lexica says:

Seems so! His great-grandfather was from Ennis, Ireland, and Ali has now been named the first "Honorary Freeman of Ennis".

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9-7-2009 12:16 AM

BobbyRutan

All this time and the Rumble in the Jungle could have been

"Rumblin' in Dublin"

9-8-2009 4:36 PM

carrerinyes

We love him here!

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