Best of enemies - Barry Flynn

The boxing saga of John Caldwell and Freddie Gilroy is a story of two world class Belfast boxers in an era long gone in the social history of Belfast. The two best friends - and Olympic medallists in 1956 for Ireland - became world famous within their sport and their story is one of fame and adulation, coupled with despair and poverty. A story of alcoholism, of troubles, of despair and glory, of rags to riches to rags again. A reflection of society in the 1960s and brings to life a re-lived rivalry which fascinated a generation.