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WHAT’S GOING ON in Leinster House?
Every day the Dáil and Seanad are sitting, TheJournal.ie brings you the most comprehensive guide to what our lawmakers are getting up to in the Houses of the Oireachtas.
So, here is what we can expect to be happening in the Dáil, Seanad and Committee rooms today…
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Young men who won’t expose their arses in public? A rare breed of Irishman indeed . They don’t make them like that any more ………. :)
William wallace: its all for nothing if we dont have freedom.
If he though the Irish were smart asses, I wonder what he thought about the Jews…..oh wait……
Great film
Timely article given the impending referendum. What would William do these days?
I seem to remember a huge sense of disappointment, that Mel Gibson didn’t mention the boys from the defence forces, while doing his “thank you” when he received his Oscar.
My good friend Jason Mckevitt is the very lad in the article. Grand head of hair on you Jay
Cheers Buddy, That clip has brought back some memories, especially regarding my Hair…..Mel Gibson was actually a genuine guy….no airs or graces Hollywood stuff, he would talk to us the same as his co-stars and production team, Still a smartass none the less !!!!!!!
Genius film maker.
@Thomas, calling Mel Gibson a “Genius Film Maker” probably puts you in a very small minority group. A lot of things spr
….spring to mind, when he’s mentioned but “Genius” is not one of them ….
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are all film masterpieces. He is a great director.
It’s my Island
That movie also spawned the chat-up line that was most used by irish male students on foreign female students for a couple of years… Every single on them claimed to have been an extra. My landlord in first year in college was working for the irish film board when they granted the funding for brave heart so I heard about it coming to Ireland for filming months before they arrived.
I’d say you’re great craic.
What chat up line. “You bled for wallace now bleed for me”?
Very good!!!
Overrated and basically fictional version of history. So completely irrelevant to the independence debate.
Clown
Alan, about sums it up. Great Scottish hero, played by an Australian and filmed in Ireland. Obviously no suitable scenery in Scotland. Decent film but hardly a history lesson.
Indeed, it’s actually considered one of the most historically inaccurate films ever made.
Er, I’d say that dubious honour would fall to Neil Jordan’s version of “Michael Collins”, Ben.
You don’t speak Latin?
Yeah well Mel is a girl’s name.
The Irish Army is a good army They do a great job at peace keeping for the UN, but a lot of respect is lost when we see them being extras in films and minding the banks money
The banks pay them to do it. It’s not free service afaik.
Soldiers have been extras in films for years and years. There was a time their pay was total shit and so they’d do it for a weekend away on the piss and a bit of craic. I wouldn’t begrudge it to them.
That’s a bit like saying nurses lose a lot of respect when they take a coffee break.
Jack those extras were fca (reserves)
There’s always one….
They kept him in fags anyway.
He is just a drunk lads take no notice of him
Why should I care what an alcoholic, wife-beating myth peddler has to say?
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