Fionnula Flanagan

Thank you very much.

Well, all of those years were different parts of the world, you know.

I wasn't always in the U.S., but I was based there, based in California.

It's wonderful to be back.

And at the same time, Ireland has changed so much that it's mostly for the good.

And so I'm getting used to that.

68.

It was when I went to New York with a play that I had done at the gate, which Hilton Edwards directed, a Brian Friel play called Lovers.

And that's what took me there.

And then I didn't come back for a very long time.

Yes, yes.

That would be about right.

I mean, I had been back and forth a lot of times, but that was when I decided to move back here.

Do you still feel it's run by hooligans?

Yes.

Well, the hooligan in chief is currently... So we just have to wait until, you know, wait another three and a half years.

Mm hmm.

And and then he'll be out of office.

So it isn't that I want to live there anymore.

It's just that I'd like to be my my stepsons are there and my grandchildren are there and my great grandchildren are there.