John Connors set for the big time with gritty new crime thriller Cardboard Gangsters

We first saw John Connors in Love/Hate, but his gritty new crime thriller looks set to propel him into the big time, writes Esther McCarthy

JOHN CONNORS is chuckling at a childhood recollection of playing near the Dublin Traveller camp where he grew up. He and his friends used to slide down the hill on election posters put up by local politicians.

“We’d take politicians’ placards off the pole, not deliberately, because we were kids, but we’d sit on their faces and slide down the hill. When I think about that now and the symbolism and what that meant,” he says, smiling.