Terry Magee is a former professional boxer. Magee, the older brother of Eamonn

Eamonn Magee

Eamonn Magee nicknamed the Terminator is a former boxer who is now a trainer with the Breen Team in Belfast...

 and Noel

Noel Magee

Noel Magee is a former professional boxer and former Commonwealth light heavyweight Title holder...

, fought at Light Middleweight

Light middleweight

Light Middleweight , is a weight division in professional boxing, above 147 pounds and up to 154 pounds ....

 but also fought at heavier weights towards the end of his career.
Magee grew up in the nationalist

Irish nationalism

Irish nationalism manifests itself in political and social movements and in sentiment inspired by a love for Irish culture, language and history, and as a sense of pride in Ireland and in the Irish people...

 Ardoyne

Ardoyne

Ardoyne is an Irish nationalist, working class and mainly Catholic district in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. It gained notoriety due to the large number of incidents during "The Troubles". It is home to approximately 20,000 inhabitants...

 area of Belfast and came from a boxing obsessed family. Magee's younger brother Eamonn

Eamonn Magee

Eamonn Magee nicknamed the Terminator is a former boxer who is now a trainer with the Breen Team in Belfast...

 stated that for his mother "boxing was as important as school". Magee's three younger brothers were also boxers with two of them, Eamonn and Noel, having careers as professional boxers and both becoming Commonwealth champions.

Magee travelled to Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 in the 1970s to fight in an international schoolboy tournament and liked the place so much that he stayed and settled in Betws

Betws

Betws is a small village on the River Amman, some 15 miles north of Swansea, Wales; it is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Betws and Ammanford...

 and continued to box with the Towy Boxing Club.