Neil Jordan's epic 1996 film, Michael Collins, will be re-released in cinemas next Friday

FILM-MAKER and writer Neil Jordan (65) stretches and flexes his right leg.

“It’s getting there,” he says, referring to the injury, a smashed kneecap and severed tendons, that put him “out of commission” for almost two years after he fell in front of a bus in Dublin city centre in 2013.