PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

KEVIN O’Brien grew up within walking distance of Cardiff docks, round the corner from the street where Jim Driscoll set out to beat the world. More than half a century after the ‘Peerless’ one came home to be acclaimed featherweight champion of the planet, young O’Brien ventured off on the same westward journey across the Atlantic never daring to imagine that he, too, would win a world title.
The terraced home of his childhood in Pendoylan Street has long been reduced to rubble, bulldozed into oblivion with the res...