12 months on from Ward defeat Egan is mixing with Klitschko

THIS time last year Kenneth Egan was shaking hands with a fighter some suggest could be a brilliant professional heavyweight, but it was the hand of a heavyweight Legend that clasped the Olympic silver medal winners hand this week.

Egan, who is running for Fine Gael in Clondalkin, never had aspirations to follow Vitali Klitschko into pro boxing, but has followed the Ukrainian into politics

The Irish boxing legend made sure he got a political savvy photo with the former heavyweight champion turned political leader at European People’s Party congress in Dublin.