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A prizefight between underdog Steve Collins and champion Chris Eubank grips and encapsulates an entire nation as it emerges from depression towards previously unimagined prosperity.
Fastnet Films / Proposition Films
Feature-length biopic of Mary Elmes from Cork who risked all to rescue children destined for the Nazi death camps.
Written & Directed for Midas Productions
A biography of James J Cornett, boxing champion, theatrical performer and movie star.
Fastnet Films / d4films
The story behind the world featherweight title match that gripped an entire Irish nation, Barry McGuigan vs Eusebio Pedroza in London, 1985.
Fastnet Films / d4films
A biography of the New Zealand boxer Tom Heeney, who fought Gene Tunney in New York for the world heavyweight title in the last great match of boxing’s Golden Age.
Accompanying book: From Poverty Bay to Broadway: the story of Tom Heeney, Hachette Livre, Auckland.
d4films
He was the Darling of the Depression. At a time when the Mob ruled the prize ring, Jimmy McLarnin and his manager Pop Foster stayed out of the clutches of the gunmen.
Accompanying book: Babyface Goes To Hollywood, The O’Brien Press, Dublin.
Fastnet Films / d4films
The story of how Michael Francis McTigue left Ireland to seek fame and fortune in the United States, only for circumstances to bring him back to Dublin where he would win one of the strangest world title fights in boxing history.
Accompanying book: A Bloody Canvas: the Mike McTigue Story, Mercier Press, Cork.
Fastnet Films / d4films