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.

Actor reaps rewards after change of career plan

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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