Liam Cunningham is having a royal old time living the dream on Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham tells Caroline Delaney how he’s happy to be filming in Belfast rather than sunny Croatia or Spain as

He’s been cooped up in a dank dungeon, had fingertips lopped by his boss and has tangled with a sinister sorceress but Davos Seaworth is living the dream. Or at least his alter ego Liam Cunningham is.

The Irish actor has reached a worldwide audience playing characters who are often moody, dour or downtrodden — if not downright nasty — but it’s all good in his view. You might remember him as the forbidding Mossie Sheehan in the adaptation of Deirdre Purcell’s Falling for a Dancer. Or as the drug smuggler in The Guard. But right now he’s Davos Seaworth, or The Onion Knight, to millions of Game of Thrones fans.