JACK DOYLE - A legend lost

Jack Doyle was the real thing: a heavyweight boxer from the mean streets of Cobh, blessed with the looks of Rudolph Valentino, the voice of Count John McCormack and the right hand of Jack Dempsey.
‘Irish Jack’ hung around with Clark Gable in Hollywood; married movie stars; sold out concert halls with tearful renditions of ‘Mother Macree’; and made a fortune.

In the depressed and impoverished Ireland of the 30s and 40s, Jack Doyle was the worlds most famous Irishman.
Yet Jack’s story had become a cautionary tale of wasted talent and squandered millions. Another forgotten Irish man dying penniless on the streets of London - though saved from a pauper’s grave by the kindness of strangers.
So where did it all go wrong for the Gorgeous Gael…