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The Irish Sun
26-05-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘One full day' – Sharlene Mawdsley's Tipperary GAA star boyfriend shares first snap of them together
NEVER mind One Fine Day, Sharlene Mawdsley and Michael Breen were just content to share 'one full day' amid her globetrotting schedule. The sprinter was back in her native county for a full 24 hours after placing second in a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet in Zagreb on Saturday. 2 'Lola's favourite is back (for one full day)' Credit: @MIKEYBREENO 2 The high-profile pair went Instagram official last weekend Credit: @sharlenem1 Breen and his teammates had the weekend off from the Munster Hurling Championship as it happened to be their bye week in the five-team competition. They were able to rest easy knowing that they'd already secured a spot in the top-three and with it, progression to the All-Ireland Series. Sunday's action ensured they won't be in the Munster final, however, as Cork leapfrogged them in the standings with Read More On Irish Sport June 7 will be the Rebels' first provincial final since 2018 where they will attempt to stop Limerick clinching a ridiculous SEVENTH crown in a row. Victorious manager Pat Ryan said: 'We left an awful lot of chances behind us. But it's knockout Championship, there's going to be a bit more trepidation in it, a bit more nervousness in it. 'Both ourselves and Waterford knew that if we didn't win, we'd be out of the Championship. We played a small bit like that, with a bit of nerves.' Ryan's side finished the game with their wides tally at 17. Most read in Athletics One of those was a glorious goal opportunity for Shane Barrett. Ryan added: 'That's something we'll work on, the efficiency side of it, but I thought our work-rate, our hitting the breaks, our hunger to get on the ball was an awful lot better than it was last week and that's the way it should be. That's the standard. RTE pundit Joe Canning urges GAA to make huge change for Leinster hurling final as fans 'totally agree' 'You're not always going to play as well or have great hurling at times and things might not come off in your game-plan. "But your work-rate, your attitude and your character has to be the standard. 'From our point of view, the attitude last week wasn't good enough. The effort wasn't good enough. I don't think we played brilliant hurling today but today was about attitude and character.' The 48-year-old also used his post-game platform to He insisted: 'It's hard not to get drawn into the hype. Some of it was stupid stuff altogether and a lot of it was coming from outside the county. 'You heard people writing off Limerick, some of our own people. Are they off their game or what? 'From my point of view, that was very annoying. I think sometimes fellas would be building you up, hoping that you'd get a kick in the ass.' Just five weeks since
The National
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Everything you need to know about the new Restless Natives musical
Michael Hoffman has a score to settle and the Hollywood director has vowed he will achieve this across the theatres of Scotland this summer. 'It's a chance for us all to go back and reclaim our past,' says the actor, writer and director, who has returned for a second bite of a Scottish story that's become a cult classic status since its release 40 years ago. 'It was upsetting when it wasn't well received at first. It was painful for us. But it was triumphant for us in certain ways, too.' Now the triumph is the curtain going up on a new telling of a story he left behind in 1985, as Restless Natives: The Musical takes to the road around Scotland. In the mid-1980s, having been inspired by his experience of Robert Redford's Sundance film development lab in Utah, Hoffman got together with some of his young mates and launched a national screenwriter's competition in the UK. One of the short scripts they received was from Ninian Dunnett, telling the story of a pair of Edinburgh lads who, in the midst of the hopelessness of 1980s economic depression, buy a pair of masks and rob tour buses. Producer David Puttnam picked it as the winner and the short project was developed into a feature-length film by Hoffman and cohorts and released in 1985. 'It was one of the easiest, most seamless roads between discovering a piece of material then making it that I've ever had in my life,' says Hoffman, whose Hollywood credits since include One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Christian Bale and Dominic West. 'But it had a pretty rocky start. Reviews were not good at first, partly because we were hot on the heels of Bill Forsyth's movies. We certainly weren't trying to make another Bill Forsyth movie but there were similar things going on tonally, perhaps in particular to That Sinking Feeling. 'But the film went on to find fans in America and Scotland and all over the world. It started to reclaim a position for ourselves. It was still a long journey to get to the point when James McAvoy said to me the reason he'd do my film The Last Station is because he loved Restless Natives when he was a kid. Or Gerry Butler turning up at a party and saying he wasn't worthy to shake my hand because Restless Natives was his favourite film. Or Jack Black wanting to remake it in America. It has had this long, crazy life.' (Image: Restless Natives Musical) The latest step in that crazy life sees the caper adapted for theatre as a stage musical, featuring – as the film did – the music of Big Country, with the production team from the flick bringing it to the stage. The original film written by Ninian Dunnett featured relative unknowns Vincent Friell and John Mullaney alongside bona fide movie star Ned Beatty. A lifetime on, Hoffman has co-written the book for the stage show starring Kirsty MacLaren, Kyle Gardiner, Finlay McKillop and Alan McHugh. Five decades later, it will play to audiences for whom many of the themes will resonate as clearly as they would have done with those who saw it at the time. He says: 'It's the story of two under-employed kids in Edinburgh who feel like their lives are bereft of possibility. One decides he has to take his chance, and they go out as The Clown and The Wolfman and rob tourist coaches. What was an insane scheme leads them to international popularity and they become these Robin Hood bandits who capture the imagination of the whole world. It's a romance and a bromance. And it's about growing up. 'It's also that basic notion about identity and self-respect and finding a way forward towards a dream that you have or a possibility that you see. That never goes away. It's a fundamentally aspirational story and an aspirational story is timeless. (Image: Restless Natives Musical) 'In Thatcher's Britain people felt really at risk up here. And I think the questions in that are things young people are asking now: is there a world for me? I think that still really plays. What makes it universal is that it's an underdog story about people who need to reclaim their self-respect and ask for a little bit of dignity from the world. That theme and idea operates in every relationship in the movie. And I think that operates on some level for Scotland, too. It's a movie about reclaiming your identity.' The revival of interest in the film has, he admits, been enhanced by the podcast of the same name but also the enduring love for the band whose music formed the soundtrack. Hoffman says: 'The crossover between Big Country lovers and the film has also been a massive injection of energy. When the band play the theme tune from the film everybody really comes alive. It has become a real stalwart set piece in their concerts. 'I always loved Big Country. I had their first album early on and I wanted them to do the music for Restless Natives because of the spirit of the music they were making. It really made sense with what the movie was about. We thought it was a way to distinguish the film from everything else in the landscape.' The band, led by Dunfermline's Stuart Adamson, were at the height of their powers in the mid-1980s, and created epic soundscapes for Hoffman's film, immediately identifiable as their own. Adamson tragically died 16 years after the film's release but Hoffman believes his sound and spirit have flavoured the new show, which draws on the Big Country catalogue, including a spine-tingling a capella version of one of their biggest hits. 'We all have ups and downs, especially in the life of a rock band such as Big Country and all the changes they go through. But doing this again has reminded us all of why we're doing any of this in the first place: dreaming big.' Restless Natives The Musical is at Perth Theatre until May 10; Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, May 14-17; His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, May 21-24; Eden Court, Inverness, May 29 – June 1; Leith Theatre, Edinburgh June 7-22; King's Theatre, Glasgow June 24-28.
The Courier
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Courier
Review: Did Restless Natives cast steal the show at Perth?
Remember the Clown and the Wolfman? Scots of a certain age will be familiar with the 1985 film Restless Natives, following this iconic pair of motorbike-riding hold-up men as they embark on a career robbing coaches loaded with wealthy tourists in the Scottish Highlands. Even if you don't know the film itself, chances are you might know the heart-swelling soundtrack by Big Country. Well, this is the belated stage musical version from the team behind the original film – writer Ninian Dunnett, producer Andy Paterson and director Michael Hoffman (who's also known for the Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney-starring One Fine Day and survival thriller Alive). The nostalgia hit of returning to the 1980s, where under-employed Edinburgh teens Ronnie (Kyle Gardiner, who recently starred as Oor Wullie in Dundee Rep's play version) and Will (Dundonian actor Finlay McKillop) seek to escape a dead-end life of boredom and hit the road for a new world of non-violent crime as Robin Hood media sensations. Against designer Becky Minto's backdrop of Highland trees and road signs, it conjures an old-fashioned, 'wha's like us?' sense of underdog Scottish patriotism, while also passing still-relevant comment on tourists' views of Scotland. The air of humour and heart-warming good times which runs through the piece. Gardiner and McKillop are full of charm and energy as the young leads, as is Kirsty MacLaren as feisty tour bus guide Margot. There are a bunch of fun supporting characters too, like Sarah Galbraith's off-her-patch Texas Ranger tourist Bender, Caroline Deyga's hilariously disinterested bus station announcer and Harry Ward's psychopathic crook Nigel. You want a full-on Big Country musical. Not that it's been billed as such, but hits like In a Big Country and I Walk the Hill only make cameo appearances, while new, musical theatre-style songs by composer Tim Sutton are more prominent in the mix. At times these are very funny, like the face-off between Margot's Scottish country and Bender's line-dancing, and occasionally they're a bit silly, such as Nigel's ode to being a criminal, which is like a scene out of Bugsy Malone. It's so packed, in fact, that there isn't a lot of room for the characters to breathe, but that shouldn't stop the tour of Scotland after this debut run at Perth Theatre being a big success. Three stars.
The Herald Scotland
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Everything you need to know about the new Restless Natives musical
'It was upsetting when it wasn't well received at first. It was painful for us. But it was triumphant for us in certain ways, too.' Now the triumph is the curtain going up on a new telling of a story he left behind in 1985, as Restless Natives: The Musical takes to the road around Scotland. In the mid-1980s, having been inspired by his experience of Robert Redford's Sundance film development lab in Utah, Hoffman got together with some of his young mates and launched a national screenwriter's competition in the UK. One of the short scripts they received was from Ninian Dunnett, telling the story of a pair of Edinburgh lads who, in the midst of the hopelessness of 1980s economic depression, buy a pair of masks and rob tour buses. Producer David Puttnam picked it as the winner and the short project was developed into a feature-length film by Hoffman and cohorts and released in 1985. 'It was one of the easiest, most seamless roads between discovering a piece of material then making it that I've ever had in my life,' says Hoffman, whose Hollywood credits since include One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Christian Bale and Dominic West. 'But it had a pretty rocky start. Reviews were not good at first, partly because we were hot on the heels of Bill Forsyth's movies. We certainly weren't trying to make another Bill Forsyth movie but there were similar things going on tonally, perhaps in particular to That Sinking Feeling. 'But the film went on to find fans in America and Scotland and all over the world. It started to reclaim a position for ourselves. It was still a long journey to get to the point when James McAvoy said to me the reason he'd do my film The Last Station is because he loved Restless Natives when he was a kid. Or Gerry Butler turning up at a party and saying he wasn't worthy to shake my hand because Restless Natives was his favourite film. Or Jack Black wanting to remake it in America. It has had this long, crazy life.' (Image: Restless Natives Musical) The latest step in that crazy life sees the caper adapted for theatre as a stage musical, featuring – as the film did – the music of Big Country, with the production team from the flick bringing it to the stage. The original film written by Ninian Dunnett featured relative unknowns Vincent Friell and John Mullaney alongside bona fide movie star Ned Beatty. A lifetime on, Hoffman has co-written the book for the stage show starring Kirsty MacLaren, Kyle Gardiner, Finlay McKillop and Alan McHugh. Five decades later, it will play to audiences for whom many of the themes will resonate as clearly as they would have done with those who saw it at the time. He says: 'It's the story of two under-employed kids in Edinburgh who feel like their lives are bereft of possibility. One decides he has to take his chance, and they go out as The Clown and The Wolfman and rob tourist coaches. What was an insane scheme leads them to international popularity and they become these Robin Hood bandits who capture the imagination of the whole world. It's a romance and a bromance. And it's about growing up. 'It's also that basic notion about identity and self-respect and finding a way forward towards a dream that you have or a possibility that you see. That never goes away. It's a fundamentally aspirational story and an aspirational story is timeless. (Image: Restless Natives Musical) 'In Thatcher's Britain people felt really at risk up here. And I think the questions in that are things young people are asking now: is there a world for me? I think that still really plays. What makes it universal is that it's an underdog story about people who need to reclaim their self-respect and ask for a little bit of dignity from the world. That theme and idea operates in every relationship in the movie. And I think that operates on some level for Scotland, too. It's a movie about reclaiming your identity.' The revival of interest in the film has, he admits, been enhanced by the podcast of the same name but also the enduring love for the band whose music formed the soundtrack. Hoffman says: 'The crossover between Big Country lovers and the film has also been a massive injection of energy. When the band play the theme tune from the film everybody really comes alive. It has become a real stalwart set piece in their concerts. 'I always loved Big Country. I had their first album early on and I wanted them to do the music for Restless Natives because of the spirit of the music they were making. It really made sense with what the movie was about. We thought it was a way to distinguish the film from everything else in the landscape.' The band, led by Dunfermline's Stuart Adamson, were at the height of their powers in the mid-1980s, and created epic soundscapes for Hoffman's film, immediately identifiable as their own. Adamson tragically died 16 years after the film's release but Hoffman believes his sound and spirit have flavoured the new show, which draws on the Big Country catalogue, including a spine-tingling a capella version of one of their biggest hits. 'We all have ups and downs, especially in the life of a rock band such as Big Country and all the changes they go through. But doing this again has reminded us all of why we're doing any of this in the first place: dreaming big.' Restless Natives The Musical is at Perth Theatre until May 10; Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, May 14-17; His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, May 21-24; Eden Court, Inverness, May 29 – June 1; Leith Theatre, Edinburgh June 7-22; King's Theatre, Glasgow June 24-28.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: George Clooney reveals he's done with romantic films
The Ocean's Eleven star used to be one of the most sought-after screen heartthrobs, starring as the romantic lead in films such as One Fine Day, Intolerable Cruelty and Out of Sight. Clooney, 63, most recently played a romantic role in the 2022 rom-com Ticket to Paradise alongside Julia Roberts and he has now indicated that it was his last. In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, the star insisted that he was too old to be taking on romantic parts. 'Look, I'm 63 years old. I'm not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. That's not my job..."
