Fans brave the cold as Gang stars come to town

FANS waited for hours in the cold to catch a glimpse of Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio, who were in London last night for the premiere screening of Gangs Of New York, the epic tale of how the Irish put their indelible stamp on 19th-century New York and consequently many heads also.

This is the first time that DiCaprio has wowed his movie audience in two years, but latter-day Irish citizen Day-Lewis is the one tipped for an Oscar for his role in the Martin Scorsese directed movie.

The movie’s plot orbits around the fightin’ Irish, those who fled their homeland in the mid-1800s to carve a new life in America. On arrival many of these immigrants were forced to carve a few British and Dutch settlers who, in the slums of New York, were less than welcoming.