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.

Sat, 20 Mar, 2010 - 00:00

Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

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.

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Courts Education Budget 2007 Place: Cork Place: Donoughmore Person: Laurence Barry Person: Ken Loach Person: Laurence Person: Micheál O Suilleabháin Person: Black Person: Tans Organisation: Cork Institute of Technology Organisation: CIT

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