Here's something that may have escaped you in the avalanche of releases and the daily mountains that we all have to climb: 2015 has been an amazing year for Irish movies. Glassland, Patrick's Day, I Used to Live Here and Song of the Sea have all enriched lives with another award-winner, Brooklyn, to come next month. (2016 will also get off to a great start with Lenny Abrahamson's Room.)
Before that, however, October's homegrown must-see sashays into cinemas; if you decide to follow you should feel all the better for it an hour-and-a-half later - like the finest of stuff, there's something so very us but universal about The Queen of Ireland. Five years in the filming, the story of Rory O'Neill's journey from Ballinrobe to Panti to conduit for change to global attention to the Marriage Equality Referendum and back to Ballinrobe again has the narrative arc that those behind the lens always dream of. And as for the heart...
Here, O'Neill and director Conor Horgan tell TEN's Harry Guerin about bringing the film to the big screen, their collaborative process and the hand of destiny...
