Free copy of The Guard given to TDs and senators

SENATORS and TDs will get a chance to see Brendan Gleeson’s Golden Globe-nominated performance for themselves after being given free copies of The Guard for Christmas.

The hit film has been billed as “like an encounter between Father Ted and Bad Lieutenant”.

Gleeson plays a garda who is, in the words of writer and director John Michael McDonagh, “an eccentric individual with a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes and a heightened sense of the absurd”.