Olympic flame goes on cross-border peace mission

June 07, 2012 02:18

The Olympic flame went on a cross-border peace mission on Thursday to Dublin to celebrate Northern Ireland reconciliation and strong British-Irish ties.

A convoy sped the symbol of the London Games to the Irish capital after a dawn ceremony at the border between the Republic of Ireland and the British territory of Northern Ireland.

There, two Olympic medal-winning boxers and former teammates one a British Protestant from Belfast, the other an Irish Catholic from Dublin embraced and held aloft their two torches.

Belfast bantamweight Wayne McCullough, who won silver in Barcelona in 1992, lit the torch held by Michael Carruth, who won gold as a welterweight 20 years ago. Then McCullough kissed his old friend on his bald head to laughs and cheers from a few hundred locals from both sides of the border.

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