Hard to believe but it's a quarter of a century since Michael Carruth's golden moment at the Barcelona Olympics.

Can you remember where you were on August 8, 1992? Were you even born?

I was in the leaba after a late night but could hear the radio on downstairs.

As the fight neared the concluding stages I had to get up such was the excitement injected into the coverage by RTE's Jimmy Magee.

It was one of those moments you knew at the time you'd remember forevermore.

The Dublin southpaw from Drimnagh Boxing Club had a gold medal showdown with Juan Hernández-Sierra, the Cuban they said couldn't be beaten, in the Barcelona Olympics.

But Carruth had other ideas.

Carruth edged the opening round 4-3 but dropped points for holding in the second, leaving the scores locked at 8-8 going into the final minutes.

When the bell rang the Irish boxer felt he had done enough.

Michael had his late dad Austin Carruth and Nicolas Cruz-Hernandez in his corner, had won 13-10 under the new computer scoring system introduced for the 1992 Olympiad.

National hysteria followed, open top bus parades, television appearances, phone calls to the house from the Taoiseach, the President...even Bono.

The celebrity status was instant, thankfully he had his triplet brothers to give a hand, particularly when he was going to Croke Park for the All Ireland Final.

Leaving the stadium, the boxer got mobbed by supporters.

Trying to get the bus back to Walkinstown, every third person that got a photo of Michael.

Check it out if you were one of the snappers.

Only one in three got the real person - everyone else got Martin or William!

A great memory of a great day in Irish sport was remembered on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show.