{"id":615487,"date":"2026-09-05T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:22:09","slug":"an-irish-woman-like-never-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615487\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An Irish woman like never before&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BONO, RORY MCILROY and Ed Sheeran are among many celebrities who have taken to Instagram to wish Katie Taylor good luck ahead of her final fight tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-katie-taylors-croke-park-bout-7150140-Sep2026\/?utm_source=thejournal&amp;utm_content=top-stories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor\u2019s 27th and final bout will take place tonight<\/a>\u00a0against France\u2019s 29-year-old Flora Pili in front of an 80,000-strong home crowd at Dublin\u2019s Croke Park.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dc5iUIrCK1P\/?img_index=2&amp;igsi=d25zbXcydng3azh0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> collated by Taylor\u2019s promoters, numerous stars have recorded messages of support for the well-loved boxer from Bray, ahead of her big fight.<\/p>\n<p>U2 frontman Bono wished Taylor good luck from the whole band, saying: \u201cAn Irish woman like never before has for 28 years fought her way into the fight of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray she finishes safe and sound. Sound as the bell that kicks off her last professional bout in Croker tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo proud of you, so proud to know you Katie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy said in his message that \u201cfighting in front of a home crowd is going to be absolutely incredible\u2026 give everyone the show that you always do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Taylor has been \u201cso entertaining\u201d to watch and that she has had an \u201camazing career\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinish it off the right way,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ed Sheeran said that he hopes she has an \u201camazing fight\u201d and hopes she wins, also saying that he is sorry not to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Horan said that he was \u201cabsolutely gutted\u201d not to be there tonight, but that it has been \u201camazing\u201d to watch her \u201cinspire a whole nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hozier said that he has \u201cwatched, along with everybody else, with such admiration as [her] career has gone from strength to strength\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou represent yourself, you represent your sport, your discipline and this whole country brilliantly, and you do it with such grace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have such admiration and such respect for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronan Keating said \u201cyou will go down in the history books. You are one of the greats\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Olympian\u00a0Rhasidat Adeleke thanked Taylor for \u201cshowing her what is possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t see it, you can\u2019t believe it, and you allowed me to believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former rugby player Brian O\u2019Driscoll, and actors Andrew Scott and Jamie Dornan were also among many others who shared their messages of support.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BONO, RORY MCILROY and Ed Sheeran are among many celebrities who have taken to Instagram to wish Katie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[26016,321,8720,93,261117,261118,61,60,10688,2050,14329,1394],"class_list":["post-615487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bono","tag-celebrities","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-entertainment","tag-final-fight","tag-good-luck-katie","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-taylor","tag-michael-flatley","tag-rhasidat-adeleke","tag-rory-mcilroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}