Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran on making one of Ireland's most loved-films

Groundbreaking and much-loved Adam and Paul reaches the grand old age of 20, writes Esther McCarthy

Adam and Paul is 20 this summer.

Twenty years ago, an up-and-coming filmmaker and screenwriter tentatively introduced their first movie to Irish audiences.

Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O’Halloran couldn’t have known it then, but their tale of a day in the life of two old friends struggling with addiction was about to become a gamechanger.