His friends called him Luke. Or Louis. Or even resorted to his real name of Martin, which he shared with both his father and the eldest of his three sons. As a wrestler he was introduced to audiences ...

The wrestling villain fans love to hate Giant Haystacks packs out the Lakeland Forum in Enniskillen. A record crowd of two thousand came to the Lakeland Forum in Enniskillen to see Martin Ruane the ...

British wrestlers have been celebrated in a new book called Grunts and Grapples – The Golden Age of British Wrestling, which we can’t get enough of. The coffee table must-have brings together a ...

Dynamite Debbie and Princess Paula please but Giant Haystacks a wrestler with Mayo roots is Cavan crowd's favourite. International wrestling tournament in County Cavan. At seven foot tall Giant ...

EVERY Saturday afternoon for 20 years, mulleted men in leotards would fight each other on live TV. They were the lords of the wrestling ring and their grappling on World Of Sport gripped the nation ...

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I RAN a picture of the Giant Haystacks, the former wrestling star of the 70s and 80s, and it sparked a few memories. Gerry Floyd from Mell had one. 'Back in the early 80s when Farrelly's Roadhouse, ...

Readers of an older pop generation will remember the lugubrious Eighties hit, Spare Us The Cutter, by Echo and the Bunnymen. Well, they are all bunnymen down at the Commons this week as the great ...

When British professional wrestling legend Mick McManus passed away in May at the age of 93, it was the end of an era that this cauliflower-eared villain helped to define. Two other icons of the ...

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1 - Wrestling is set to return to ITV on Saturday afternoons after an absence of over 30 years. Competitors will include top names in the sport such as Grado, Sha ‘the East End Mauler’ Samuels, El ...