Robert De Niro’s waiting

John Duddy’s story of the Irish slugger fighting in New York is a throwback to an earlier age. Now acting alongside Robert De Niro in an upcoming film, the Derry-born boxer is bringing back the idea of the ‘American Dream’, Words: Niall Stanage in Ne

John Duddy: ‘I had a trade. And it was a trade that happened to be televised. Everyone saw it’ Picture: Kim Haughton

‘I’m in a bloody movie with Robert De Niro.” Many actors have spent long careers waiting in vain to be able to say a sentence like that – even if they ...