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Sing Street), have only gone from strength to strength in the interim.
“The flip side, as you say, is in the last 12 to 18 months all the cast, they have all done these massive projects,” Macken agreed.
“Ferdia s movie (Coda) was the biggest selling movie in Sundance, Dean s been in an Oscar movie (1917), Anya has been in Queen s Gambit, Finn is on Fast and Furious.”
Having worked with these talented actors, Macken said he wasn’t surprised about the performances they have put in and roles they have attracted since shooting the film.
“You just knew that they were all going to do all these great things. It was just a question of would it be before or after the movie came out,” he said.
When Ireland went into lockdown for the first time last March many in the building sector found themselves with time on their hands.
Not Frank Kelly. As construction director at Walls Construction he, like everyone else in the sector, watched in frustration as Covid shuttered the gates of all but the country s most essential building sites.
He has just started a two-year term as president of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF). But, back then, as chair of the CIF s safety committee, he suddenly found himself in the thick of things, trying to figure out the practicalities of getting builders back to work as quickly as possible.