Romantic hero, sex addict, hunger striker — the sky’s the limit for Kerry actor Michael Fassbender. A glittering array of performances has taken him from obscurity to being man of the moment, says Helen Barlow

THE WORDS “cat” and “cream” immediately spring to mind, when a beaming Michael Fassbender comes loping into the Dorchester Hotel in London this week.

IF he had called off his hunger strike, Bobby Sands would be 54 and still, very possibly, the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.