Michael Moynihan: Every corner of the country should be celebrated on screen

We should be encouraging others to follow suit rather than begrudging the activity in the capital

Gemma Dunleavy at the gala preview screening of ‘North Circular’ at the Savoy Cinema, Dublin.

A friend of this column carries a devastating putdown around in his back pocket, one that can bring pain to quite a few self-important characters. It’s particularly useful when it comes to describing a closed environment in which hierarchies fall and rise, usually at the whim of self-appointed arbiters.

Is that a bit too vague? His one-liner — the scene that celebrates itself — sums up and vaporises the incestuous groupings you know well from your time in school, in work, in college — anywhere, basically there are one or two gathered together.