Former boxing world champion master graduate
Bernard with his wife Pamela and daughter Caoimhe

Former boxing world champion master graduate

Former two-time world boxing champion Bernard Dunne has seen some big occasions in his career.

However, the Clondalkin man reckoned his graduation as a Master of Science in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology from University of Limerick ranked right up there.

The former professional boxer and former WBA (Regular) and European Super Bantamweight champion was one of hundreds of students graduating from UL at this week’s summer conferring ceremony.

It was the first full in-person conferring ceremony to take place at UL – where graduates could also invite their families to attend – since the pandemic began.

More than 700 students were conferred from the faculties of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Education and Health Sciences and Science and Engineering on Tuesday afternoon.

Bernard Dunne said he “started the course a number of years ago and absolutely loved it because I was already working in the area.

“I had no grey hair before I started this course and look at me now,” he laughed.

Dunne said of the Masters at UL: “I loved it – it helped frame and gave me tools to use immediately with athletes, with coaches, with management, so that gave me instant tools that were transferable into what I was doing.

“I get asked to work with a lot of teams as performance coach and now I actually have a piece of paper which says I can do it. It is an amazing thing to have, my wife and my daughter are here and we are having a family day today – and it is just such a big occasion to graduate with a masters,” he added.

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