Actor reaps rewards after change of career plan

A YOUNG man has reaped a reward for foregoing an acting career to take on an engineering degree.

Laurence Barry was one of the young stars of Ken Loach’s award- winning movie The Wind that Shakes the Barley, filmed in Cork when Laurence was just 17.

In the opening scenes of the film, his character Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is killed by Black and Tans after refusing to give his name in English.