Oh My God, they interviewed Kenny (Egan)

I interviewed Kenny Egan last week, heading in to the National Stadium’s high performance gym for a chat and to watch him do a pads session. We chatted for 15 minutes as he warmed down after his session on an exercise bike.

The interview appeared in the Sunday Business Post as a First Person interview, which is a nice format, but doesn’t allow for much elaboration. The interview as it appears is here, but the wealth of quotes that I got from Kenny deserved a second working, so I’ve written the feature as it could have appeared in a post that will auto-post later on.

Kenny chats away so naturally that really, I could have gone down several interesting streets with it.

One interesting avenue was that the interview was organised using Twitter, which was a first for me. Kenny tweets away here and uses Facebook, Bebo and YouTube to keep his fans in the loop.

“We’ve Twitter there,” says Kenny.  “We’ve Facebook, my Bebo page has over 10,000 hits since we got back from Beijing. Steven, a very good friend of mine, he has been in here recording clips of me working bags, pads, circuits, putting them onto Youtube and Bebo to let the kids see what it’s all about. They only see me fighting in Beijing, they don’t see the stuff that goes in before it and after it.”

The article is timed to go off at around 10.30 this morning, check back in here if you fancy a read.