silence 12 November 2010
We observed the 2 minute silence for Remembrance Day at work on the set of SHAMELESS – many thanks to our First Assistant Director, Simon Turner, for calling it. There was a time in Ireland when it was very unpopular to wear the poppy at all let alone with the pride it deserves and it’s only truly recently that it has become quite rightly accepted as a very legitimate thing to do. Both sides of my family came out of a garrison town in the North West of Ireland and men on my mother’s side fought and died in the British Army. It is humbling and important to remember them. We live as we do because of their bravery.
I’m off to Kilkenny now for the Kilkenomics Festival – get there if you can as it will be a cracking weekend of comedy and economics. I’m doing a public interview with Dearbhail McDonald in Cleere’s tomorrow night at 9 and it’s going to be a corker. See you there!
