FOR a man who has been in the fight game all his life, Paddy Fitzpatrick abhors violence.

To many this may seem strange, but the Ferndale Road-based trainer is not talking about two men willingly stepping into the ring, trading blows and if one is in danger of being seriously hurt, then the contest is usually brought to a halt.

What Fitzpatrick is talking about is the glorification and gratification of violence in music, films and computer games.

“When you listen to our music today, all this rap is where every woman is a bitch and a whore, get rich or die trying, F everybody else - the problem is our children are looking up to these people,” Paddy said.

“A few years ago, Batman and Spiderman were kids’ movies and were something that you would watch with your family.

“But I won’t let my son watch the last two Batmans because they are just pure, pure violence.

“We buy our children, for entertainment, Call of Duty, or the one where you can hijack a car and rape a woman or cut their throat – how is that entertainment?

“How is it entertainment when we see so many men and women are out fighting wars and being killed on the news but as soon as we turn off the news, we turn on a game and mimic it?”

While not calling for a ban on these products, Fitzpatrick would like to see a cigarette package style warning on games, CDs and DVDs.

“It took, I don’t know how many years, for the government to finally order that cancerous lungs be put on the front of cigarette packing,” he said.

“There should be a warning on the front of computer games and on the front of these movies – not just a little 18 sticker.

“Our children are born blank canvasses and what they experience and what we teach them is what they become.”