GALWAY NATIVE ACTOR CONDEMNED FOR COMMENTS ABOUT CONNEMARA

Date Published: 02-Aug-2009

Galway native actor Owen McDonnell has upset tourism chiefs in Ireland by saying that Connemara is not as idyllic as it seemsIn an interview with the Manchester Evening News he says that Connemara villages have the same social problems as drug-plagued inner city areas, coupled with an alarmingly high suicide rates34 year old McDonnell gave the interview as part of the pre-publicity to the first showing this weekend, on British TV, of the RTE crime drama Single-Handed in which he plays a Connemara Garda Sargeant