Hollywood star pays tribute to Connolly

A Hollywood actor is to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s trade union legends at a rally in Belfast this weekend because of a personal family connection.

Patrick Bergin, who stared in the movies Patriot Games and Sleeping With The Enemy, arrived in the city to take part in the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ May festival marking the 100th anniversary of James Larkin’s involvement in the 1907 dockers and carters strike in the city.