Actor Colin Farrell ‘inspired’ by children with rare illness

Actor Colin Farrell said he was “moved and inspired” when he met a group of children suffering from a rare and debilitating illness.

The Hollywood star, who was in Dublin last week to promote his new film The Lobster, took time out to visit children from the Katie Rose Foundation, a charity which supports children with mitochondrial disease and their families.

“It was my honour to visit them, it really was. And people thank you for it but the gratitude is the other way around as far as I’m concerned, parents like that letting me into their lives, and into their children’s lives, even for a minute,” he told the Irish Examiner.