New American western film features an Irish twist

By Jim Gallagher

It’s an American western like you have never seen before — as it’s been filmed in Connemara. Never Grow Old starring Hollywood stars John Cusack and Emile Hirsch has outlaws, multiple murders, a hanging, a Bible-thumping preacher and God-fearing town folk, but the nearest it got to America was an old mine just outside Oughterard in Co Galway.