19 March 2015, The Tablet

Fight the good fight


 
It wasn’t quite St Paul’s version of fighting the good fight to the finish, but when Irish priest Fr Pierre Pepper took on the challenge of a boxing match with one of his parishioners, he was determined to give it his very best shot.Fr Pepper, who is parish priest of St Rynagh’s in Banagher, County Offaly, won a decisive victory over parishioner Jared Madden in the weekend fight for charity. Competing under the nickname of “Jalapeño”, he was declared the win
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