Dominic West: 'A lot of people don’t understand country life... I don’t really get that'

Building a pond, playing King Charles, US politics, and life at Glin Castle – everything was up for discussion when Noel Baker met Dominic West
Dominic West: 'A lot of people don’t understand country life... I don’t really get that'

Dominic West and his wife Catherine FitzGerald, outside Glin Castle, their home in Glin, Co Limerick. West installed a natural wild swimming pond on the Castle’s estate, doing all the work himself with knowledge he says he picked up from a YouTube video. Picture; Larry Cummins

On reading that Dominic West had built a natural pond in the grounds of his Irish residence, my mind, perhaps unfairly, rolled back to a scene in seminal TV show The Wire, where West’s character, Detective Jimmy McNulty, attempts to build a bunk bed. 

After a few baffled looks at the instructions, he gives up, tosses the planks of wood and starts sipping from a bottle of Jameson.

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