A quiet slice of Wayne’s world

EXPECT a bit of a fuss and noise again at Connemara’s Quiet Man bridge.

The arrival here for sale of a stone-built cottage, a former railway crossing keeper’s home for €150,000, will bring a tidy-sized crowd, a small bustle of bidders redolent of the 1950s when the John Ford movie was filmed here.

The Quiet Man, released in 1952, featured John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in the leading roles, along with Barry Fitzgerald, though, truth be told, the scenery was really the star of the show.