BETTY COMMENTATOR CUSHLA CUSHLA_LAVERY DAVY DECCY DERMOT DISCO_PEELER DRIVER EAMONN EAMONN_LAVERY FIDEL GERRY GINA GINA_LAVERY GROUP INTERVIEWER JIM JIMMY JOANNA MAITRE_D MAN
MARIAN MARJORIE MICHAEL MICHAEL_AGNEW MINTY MRS_COYLE OTHER_SOLDIER PENNY PRIVATE_HARRIS REPORTER SEAMUS SEAN TOMMY VICTOR

CUSHLA LAVERY 
Mummy!
CUSHLA LAVERY 
Mummy!
GINA LAVERY 
Hello?
CUSHLA LAVERY
Mummy!
GINA LAVERY
Oh.
CUSHLA LAVERY
Mummy!
GINA LAVERY
You left me all alone! Ah!
CUSHLA LAVERY
Okay. Hang on, I know you�re cold. Okay. Breathe in.
GINA LAVERY
Where were you?
CUSHLA LAVERY
Okay, put your arms around me. I know, okay, come on. Okay, put your wee arm around me.
GINA LAVERY
Can�t feel my leg.
CUSHLA LAVERY
One. two, three. Come on, Mummy. Help me, please. Okay. Okay. I�m gonna get you. Just stay there for me. Okay?
GINA LAVERY
You left me alone! 
CUSHLA LAVERY
Don�t cry mummy.  Gonna put a wee plaster on you.
GINA LAVERY
You left me all alone.
CUSHLA LAVERY
And then I�m gonna get you all warm, okay?
CUSHLA LAVERY
I�m here now. Okay?
GINA LAVERY
Oh.
CUSHLA LAVERY
I�m here now. I�m sorry, Mummy.
GINA LAVERY
Oh.
EAMONN LAVERY 
The Anchor.
CUSHLA LAVERY 
Eamonn, Mummy�s drinking�s getting worse.
EAMONN LAVERY 
 What?
CUSHLA LAVERY 
She�s pissed all the time. There�s, there�s gin bottles all over this house!
EAMONN LAVERY 
What do you want me to do about it? I�m up to my ballix here, wee girl.
CUSHLA LAVERY
Who is it?
MICHAEL AGNEW
I don�t know. A car just reversed in and took off again.
CUSHLA LAVERY
I thought you said you weren�t worried about the peelers?
MICHAEL AGNEW 
It wasn�t the police.
CUSHLA LAVERY
Who was it? Did you recognise the car?
MICHAEL AGNEW
No. It was one of those cars that you�re not supposed to remember.
MICHAEL 
Young, non-militant Catholics are being radicalised by police brutality.
MINTY
He loves the sound of his own voice.
MICHAEL 
Wich makes them vulnerable to recruitment to the IRA.
JIMMY
He looks tired.
MICHAEL 
At this rate, the RUC and the IRA might as well be working together.
FIDEL
Has he forgotten the judges the IRA shot last year?
MICHAEL 
I won�t let the bully boys on either side tell me what I can and can�t say. 
FIDEL
He�s begging for a bullet alright.
MICHAEL
I choose freedom over fear.
CUSHLA
I�m going to the loo.
REPORTER 
But it was a poor election for his Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which took only five seats. Unionist opposition to Faulkner�s support of power sharing.
GINA
You�d almost feel sorry for him. He should take up golf.
CUSHLA
What?
GINA
Brian Faulkner. He should just give up.
REPORTER 
Michael Agnew, the lawyer representing Connor Kelly, Michael McAleavey, and Patrick Coyle spoke out today about police brutality.
MICHAEL 
Young, non-militant Catholics are being radicalised by police brutality.
GINA
There�s another one who needs a hobby.
MICHAEL 
At this rate, the RUC and the IRA might as well be working together.
INTERVIEWER 
That�s a very inflammatory statement.
MICHAEL 
I won�t let the bully boys on either side tell me what I can and can�t say. I choose freedom over fear.
GINA
He�s kept a good head of hair, in fairness to him.
CUSHLA
I�m gonna go to bed.
JIM
Cushla. Ah, thank you for coming!
CUSHLA
Hello, thanks for having me.
JIM
No Michael?
CUSHLA
Is he not here?
JIM
No.
CUSHLA
Oh.
JIM
Grab a wee drink and I�ll see yous inside, yeah?
PENNY
Cushla, thank you so much for coming. Your dress is lovely.
CUSHLA
Thank you, Penny. I love your work.
JIM
Still no sign of Michael?
CUSHLA
No. But he did say that these are your favourites.
PENNY
Ah! He brought you to Bewley�s!
VICTOR
Aye, and Switzers, by the look of it.
JIM
Ah, speak of the devil.
MICHAEL
I�m sorry I missed it, Penny.
JIM
Hard day at the office?
MICHAEL
You could say that.
PENNY
Come on, let�s take the rest of the wine into the kitchen.
MICHAEL
Bloody RUC legal team trying to pretend they�re impartial.
VICTOR
Have you ever thought that maybe it�s you that�s not impartial?
MICHAEL
You�re right, Vic. I am partial, to a bit of justice.
VICTOR
Oh, stop with the grandstanding.
MICHAEL
Would you like to be hauled off the street and have a false confession beaten out of you?
VICTOR
Don�t. We know all this.
MICHAEL
And then you get tried by one old judge who thinks you�re inherently wrong on all three fronts, class, religion, haircut.
VICTOR
You are so bloody wearying. 
MICHAEL
You know, I can understand why the IRA are telling their lads not to recognise these Diplock courts, even if it makes my life harder.
VICTOR
Well, you�re doing a good enough job of that yourself. Wasn�t enough just to defend them, no?
JIM 
What do you mean?
VICTOR
Michael here wasn�t getting enough attention, so he�s taking a case against the RUC. Police brutality. Enough is never enough with you.
JIM
Christ sake.
PENNY
Oh, Michael.
VICTOR
You need to keep some friends.
MICHAEL
What does that mean?
VICTOR
It means you might need someone watching your back.
MICHAEL
I think I�m already being watched. Or, surveillance may be a better word for it.
PENNY
Cushla, do you want to help me gather the rest of the glasses?
CUSHLA
Yeah.
PENNY
I forget you work in a bar. 
CUSHLA
Have Victor and Michael always sparred like that?
PENNY
To some degree, yes, but it�s getting worse. Everything always looks so clear to Michael. It�ll do him no good in this town. Cushla. have you thought about the risk to yourself, if people find out about you and Michael? Or if you are with Michael and if, God forbid, anything should happen.
CUSHLA
We must have the courage to choose
PENNY
They�re his words. Not yours.
CUSHLA
Would your life be easier without me? Us?
MICHAEL
Easier?
CUSHLA
Safer, I suppose.
MICHAEL
I like us a lot.
CUSHLA
I should go.
MICHAEL
Are you sure?
CUSHLA
I�ll let you get ahead. I have a big day tomorrow. Communion. It�ll be the first time seeing the McGeowns in a while.
MICHAEL
These are for you. So you can come and go as you please, whether I�m here or not.
CUSHLA
Thanks.
MICHAEL
Thank you. For making my life immeasurably better.
GINA
Snap a wee one of me. God knows when I�ll look this good again.
CUSHLA
Beautiful.
DAVY
Miss Lavery!
CUSHLA
Don�t you look dapper, Davy.
DAVY
Thanks, Miss.
CUSHLA
Shall I take a wee photo?
CUSHLA
Cheese! Oh.
DAVY
Mummy! Mummy, let�s get a photo of all of us!
CUSHLA
Why don�t you move in there, Tommy?
GINA
Hey, Davy.
DAVY
Thank you, Mrs Lavery.
BETTY
Yes, thank you. Too generous.
GINA
Sure, he�s a wee dote. Look at you. 
BETTY
We best get on. Get your Daddy out of this chaos.
CUSHLA
It wasn�t me that called the social. It was Bradley.
TOMMY
I told Mum you wouldn�t be that nice to us and then report us.
CUSHLA
Yeah.
TOMMY
I�m labouring now, with my cousins.
CUSHLA
I�ll drop a couple of books round. If you keep reading, all will not be lost.
TOMMY
Yes, Miss.
MICHAEL
Why does Jimmy have the egg in his pocket?
CUSHLA
I don�t know.
MICHAEL
You�ve caught the sun.
CUSHLA
You haven�t.
MICHAEL
Who�s that man?
CUSHLA
That�s my wee peeler from the school disco. My suitor.
MICHAEL
Thanks for the whiskey. Gentlemen, I�m in need of your assistance with the crossword. Here, Minty, help me out, would you?
MICHAEL
Why would your disco peeler be in the pub?
CUSHLA
Well, Gerry reckons he has eyes for me. There�s nothing to be jealous over.
MICHAEL
Christ, Cushla, this is serious. You need to tell me if he comes in again.
CUSHLA
Could it not just be a coincidence?
MICHAEL
There are no coincidences in Belfast.
CUSHLA
I saw a car outside your flat the other night.
MICHAEL
Did he get your number plate?
CUSHLA
If he wanted it.
MICHAEL
Did he follow you home?
CUSHLA
No.
CUSHLA
Happy birthday, Jim.
JIM
Thank you, Cushla. Michael, do us a favour. Grab that chair.
MICHAEL
Alright.
PENNY
Oh, this is Mrs Coyle, and we could not live without her. Mrs Coyle, this is our friend Cushla.
CUSHLA
I�ll just give you a hand.
MRS COYLE
You�ve done this before.
CUSHLA
We have a bar.
MICHAEL
How�s the other woman in my life?
MRS COYLE
Oh, hi.
MICHAEL
Cushla, this is the lady responsible for the hospital corners and the shiny brasses in my flat. How are you?
MRS COYLE
I�m alright. He rang me. He�s not recognising the court. 
MICHAEL
It�s okay, I�m gonna speak to him this week.
MAN
Michael.
MICHAEL
Pleased to see you. How�s things?
MAN
Not too bad.
MICHAEL
Good. Hey, look. There�s Jim.
CUSHLA
Beautiful.
MICHAEL
You look beautiful, Penny. Marjorie.
MARJORIE
How are you?
MICHAEL
Grand. How are you?
MARJORIE
Good, good.
MICHAEL
Cushla, this is Marjorie. Marjorie.
MARJORIE
Pleased to meet you.
MICHAEL
See you later.
MICHAEL
How are you two getting along?
CUSHLA
Great. Fenian Corner we�re calling it, aren�t we?
JIM
Michael! 
CUSHLA
Jesus, don�t tell me you�ve a party piece.
MRS COYLE
Oh, go on, you two. Let me get back to work.
CUSHLA
Come on.
CUSHLA
You�re full of surprises.
MICHAEL
Why the fuck are you crying?
CUSHLA
You know, your language has really deteriorated since you met me.
MICHAEL
What is it?
CUSHLA
The song made me sad.
MICHAEL
You Catholics and your high emotions. Come on, let�s go inside.
CUSHLA
I have not got one word left in me for those people.
MICHAEL
Let�s go home, yeah. I�ll go and get my jacket.
CUSHLA
We�re sneaking away, Mrs Coyle.
MRS COYLE
I wouldn�t let any of them ones look down on me. I clean for some of them. Dirt birds.
CUSHLA
Now I wanna stay and hear every minging detail. 
MICHAEL
Right, let�s go.
CUSHLA
See you later.
MICHAEL
I�ll phone you tomorrow.
MRS COYLE
Okay, thank you.
MICHAEL
Come on, let�s go. 
CUSHLA
Here, what�s the craic with Mrs Coyle?
MICHAEL
Her son�s in trouble. He�s been identified in a line-up.
CUSHLA
It�s that case? Do you think you can help?
MICHAEL
Only if he accepts the services of a lawyer. The IRA men he�s on remand with are telling him not to recognise the court.
CUSHLA
Sorry. It�s your night off.
MICHAEL
Mm, it is.
CUSHLA
Come on.
MICHAEL
Oh! 
CUSHLA
What would Sally Bowles sound like if she were Irish?
CUSHLA
I am not reading Irish to you.
MICHAEL
Come on.
CUSHLA
No, not as Sally, and not as me.
MICHAEL
Just one line. One line.
CUSHLA
Fuck sake. Si�d � in airde d'fhuip, sin � do l�ir amuigh.
MICHAEL
Do you have any idea how sexy that sounds?
CUSHLA
You have a Fenian fetish. I don�t blame, you when the alternative is shagging a woman that answers to the name Marjorie.
MICHAEL
You don�t miss much, do you? That was an age ago, before I knew they made women like you.
CUSHLA
What does Marjorie like you to do to her?
MICHAEL
You really don�t wanna know.
CUSHLA
I really do.
MICHAEL
I�ll not be able to contact you for a while. Or be here at the flat.
CUSHLA
Incommunicado. Must be serious.  Mrs Coyle is gonna love you forever.
MICHAEL
Morning.
CUSHLA
Morning. 
CUSHLA
Don�t take any needless risks. I want you back in one piece. You are a brave man that I can wait for.
GERRY
I�m gonna go check on them.
CUSHLA
Best of luck, Gerry.
GERRY
Yeah, I�ll need it.
DAVY
I found a wee fella for you, Miss.
CUSHLA
Let me see. You know, I have a friend who has a book, and in it, it says if you can turn a bluebell inside out without tearing it, you get the one you love. Isn�t that nice?
DAVY
Yeah.
CUSHLA
Yeah. Can you take some photographs for me?
DAVY
Yeah.
CUSHLA
Yeah? On you go.
GERRY
Sean was chasing Zoe with a used condom on a stick.
CUSHLA
That�s him flirting.
GERRY
Charming. What or who has you charmed?
CUSHLA
Nobody.
GERRY
Tell me.
CUSHLA
No.
GERRY
Somebody called you Easter Sunday.
CUSHLA
Okay. I�ll tell you. But you have to swear to God not to tell a soul.
GERRY
I swear.
CUSHLA
It�s Brian Faulkner.
GERRY
Fuck away off.
CUSHLA
It is! That�s why I couldn�t tell anyone!
GERRY
So, you�re saying I'm still in with a chance then? Fancy coming to a wedding with me, this Saturday, in Belfast?
CUSHLA
Aye, go on.
DAVY
I hope the bluebell works out for you, Miss.
REPORTER 
Somebody somewhere is determined that the ceasefire, which has held so precariously so far, will not be.
CUSHLA
Has your wee mate gone home?
PRIVATE HARRIS
You�ll be happy to hear he got blown up.
CUSHLA
Nobody here�s happy when anyone gets blown up.
OTHER SOLDIER
Except the IRA. 
PRIVATE HARRIS
You�re all ungrateful animals. We should just go home and let you murder each other.
CUSHLA
I�m sorry about your friend.
GINA
Gerry�s eyes will be on stalks. Well for you out galivanting again. Nothing like a good wedding. 
CUSHLA
Don�t do that Mummy.
GINA
What?
CUSHLA
Feel sorry for yourself.
GINA
If I don�t feel sorry for myself, who will? Not you. I�d get more sympathy from a shoe. You don�t know what it�s like to lose someone you love.
CUSHLA
Yeah I do, Mummy. He was my Daddy, so.
GINA
Well, at least I�ve got the bottle to keep me company.
CUSHLA
I�m not even giving you an audience.
GINA
What does that mean?
CUSHLA
It means that I�m gonna stay in Gerry�s tonight, because I can�t be bothered to come home and find you bleeding out in the bath.
GINA
I�ve got nothing to look forward to! Nothing!
CUSHLA
If you do your nails instead of getting plastered tonight, I�ll take you for a fancy lunch in the hotel tomorrow, okay?
GERRY
The hotel they booked got firebombed last week. Poor fuckers. Deccy!
DECCY
Gerry, what�s the craic?
MAN
I�m very proud of our Kathleen. She�s been a busy, happy wee thing since the day she was born. You better look after her, or you�ll be getting a visit
GERRY
You look like you might cry. Are you thinking about your upcoming nuptials with Brian Faulkner? 
CUSHLA
He�d never settle for a leisure centre.
GERRY
I reckon he�d settle for anything at the moment. 
MAN
Alright, alright. I�ll read the telegrams first. This one�s from Derry. It came through the window wrapped round a brick! 
CUSHLA
That�s Martin Gallagher!
GERRY
I know exactly who he is.
CUSHLA
I taught his wee lad Luke in teacher training.
GERRY
He asked if he could send a couple of boys round to cement sherry
trifles into the wall of my garage.
CUSHLA
Jesus, Gerry. What did you say?
GERRY
I says, I haven�t got a garage. He asked after you. Says he knew I wasn�t your boyfriend. How the fuck would the IRA know that?
CUSHLA
Look, I�m gonna get a taxi.
GERRY
No, I�ll take you. I�m done dancing.
CUSHLA
Can you drop me somewhere?
GERRY
Within reason.
GERRY
My imagination�s running overtime, Lavery.
CUSHLA
Thanks.
GERRY
Fucking Martin Gallagher�s sticking his neb in, and now we�re here, in enemy territory.
CUSHLA
It�s Brian�s love nest.
GERRY
We live here. There are things we cannot do.
CUSHLA
Intriguing, what kind of things can Gerry Harkin
GERRY
Cushla, this kind of secrecy always blows up. The wrong people are asking after you. Forget about getting your heart broken. You�re risking much more than that.
CUSHLA
I�ll see you Monday, Gerry.
GERRY
Yeah, I bloody hope so.
CUSHLA
Thank you.
DRIVER
No bother, love.
DISCO PEELER
Morning. Big night out, was it?
CUSHLA
Er. just at a wedding in Belfast. Stayed with a friend.
DISCO PEELER
Ah. Lucky friend. Do I know him?
CUSHLA
Might�ve been a girl.
DISCO PEELER
Was it?
SGT. REID
Everything alright, Cushla?
DISCO PEELER
Ah. Sergeant Reid. Yeah, all good here. It was you I was coming to see, actually.
CUSHLA
I�m gonna take my mummy for lunch.
CUSHLA
Lavery.
MAITRE D
The table for ten?
CUSHLA
There must be a mistake.
MAITRE D
Sorry, yes. There�s a Lavery table for two also. Follow me.
EAMONN
I didn�t expect to see yous here.
GINA
Obviously.
EAMONN
It�s, er. Marian�s Mummy�s birthday.
MARIAN
Will yous come and join us?
GINA
You�re alright, thanks.
GROUP
Happy birthday dear Granny, happy birthday to you. 
CUSHLA
Shall we go?
GINA
Aye.
GINA
Ach, how are you, Michael? We met at the Anchor. Our family bar.
MICHAEL
Hello Mrs Lavery. How are you?
GINA
Call me Gina.
MICHAEL
This is my wife, Joanna.
GINA
This is my daughter, Cushla.
JOANNA
Very pleased to meet you, Cushla. This is our son, Dermot. Dermot, say hello to Cushla.
DERMOT
Hello.
CUSHLA
Hello.
GINA
No need to introduce you to Michael.
CUSHLA
We really better be going on, but, um, enjoy your lunch.
GINA
What must Michael and Joanna think of us, sitting at separate tables? What�s got into you? No harm to you, but I�m foundered. Are you going to go get the wee car? 
COMMENTATOR 
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we move on to the ever-popular swimwear round.
GINA
Get that, Cushla. I can�t move.
CUSHLA
Just leave it.
DAVY
Can we write to Jimmy Savile, Miss? Miss?
CUSHLA
What?
DAVY
I said can we write to Jimmy Savile?
CUSHLA
What in God�s name would you be writing to him for?
SEAN
Jim�ll Fix It, it�s a new programme on TV. I heard he makes children�s wishes come true.
CUSHLA
Fine. Might be good practice.
CUSHLA
Okay. Okay, you start with your address in the right-hand corner.
SEAN
Doesn�t that mean they�ll know where you live?
CUSHLA
That�s not always a bad thing.
CUSHLA
Dear Jimmy. I hope you are keeping well. Things are fine here. The school holidays begin next week and I will be off work for two months. I had intended to spend the summer slinking round Michael Agnew�s flat, making myself irresistible to him, so he�d leave his wife. Only his wife is a lady, and they appear to be happily married, and he is a lying, cheating, philandering fucker. Wishes are for children and fools. Yours sincerely, Cushla Lavery, age 24 and three quarters.
GERRY
Trouble in paradise?
CUSHLA
Frig off, Gerry.
GERRY
You need to be saved from yourself. Come to France with me and my friends for the summer. We�ve a lead on some bar work. Cushla. let me in.
CUSHLA
Doesn�t matter. It�s over.
GERRY
Was he married? Was he a Prod?
CUSHLA
Look, since we�re asking questions, what were you doing out by the lough in the middle of the night?
GERRY
Wasn�t me.
CUSHLA
Yeah it was, Gerry. I know what I saw. Is this anything to do with Martin Gallagher? Look, Gerry, are you in trouble?
GERRY
No disrespect, Cushla, but who the fuck are you to be demanding answers from me?
CUSHLA
Just leave it off the hook, Mummy.
GINA
Excuse me. I might have someone calling. I assume it�s Gerry you don�t wanna talk to. Well, if you ask me, he was never good enough for you. Here. Steak always helps. Your Daddy and I used to have a steak every Monday night when we first married. Just to spite the week ahead.
CUSHLA
Yeah, well, I�m home every evening now. Given up the pub shifts, so let�s reignite the tradition.
GINA
Oh, will you just talk to the wee puke?
MICHAEL
What happened at the hotel was appalling.
CUSHLA
Yeah. Because I thought that you were going missing to save Mrs Coyle�s son.
MICHAEL
I know. I�m sorry. I knew you thought it was work related.
CUSHLA
I never thought about her much. And when I did, I pictured somebody else. Like a wizened wee hag, or some auld doll that needed her roots done. You�re a fucking coward. And you�re always banging on about bravery. She held my fucking hand, Michael.
MICHAEL
She�s not well, Cushla.
CUSHLA
She seems perfect to me.
MICHAEL
Sometimes she�s well enough to do things. Dermot had just finished his A-levels, and so we. we all went out for lunch. But she has long-term clinical depression, and she�s been in hospital the last few months getting electric shock treatment.
CUSHLA
Is that why you could see so much of me?
MICHAEL
She came home the day after I last saw you. It�s a bloody mess. I want to be with you. But I can�t leave Joanna.
CUSHLA
Why not? I�m the one that�ll take the brunt of it. You�ll keep your job, your friends, your life.
MICHAEL
I can�t leave, cause I ruined her life.
CUSHLA
How?
MICHAEL
Joanna was studying law in Dublin when I got her pregnant. And. after the birth, she was never right. Never. And she just got worse and worse. She can�t live on her own, and I cannot ask Dermot to give up his life for her, because he would.
CUSHLA
Do you sleep with her?
MICHAEL
No. We share a bed, but there hasn�t been sex for years.
CUSHLA
Have you had many affairs?
MICHAEL
Three.
CUSHLA
Including me?
MICHAEL
This is not an affair. This is different.
CUSHLA
How?
MICHAEL
Because I love you. I love you, Cushla, and whatever happens, I�ll never, ever lie to you again, I promise. I didn�t expect to fall in love, and I do not expect you to give up your life for me. You�d make a wonderful, wonderful wife and mother, but I, I can�t give you any of that. 
MICHAEL
Do you want to stop seeing me?
CUSHLA
No. God help me, I don�t.
MICHAEL
There is so much that we can do. There�s this, oh, it�s beautiful. There�s this cottage in Donegal, and we can go there at the end of the summer. And we�ll see God in the skies. We can take trips away, long weekends. Go to Amsterdam, Barcelona.
CUSHLA
This is gonna end really badly, isn�t it?
MICHAEL
It doesn�t have to.
JIMMY
Cushla!
CUSHLA
Jimmy.
FIDEL
There�s our girl.
CUSHLA
Hello, hello, hello. Eamonn, what can I do for you? What needs to be done?
EAMONN
Just throw out a few pints, and keep me company.
FIDEL
You�re actually doing an impression of Mike Yarwood doing an impression of Frank Spencer. [LAUGHS]
EAMONN
I�m missing my daughters growing up because of these eejits
CUSHLA
You love it.
EAMONN
They�re a good laugh. Sometimes it�s like it used to be.
CUSHLA
Here. Finish this film.
EAMONN
Alright, lads, photograph time, come on. That�s it, like, one together. Alright, Michael.
MICHAEL
Eamonn.
EAMONN
Come on, Jimmy, let�s go, come on.
CUSHLA
Can you not stay away from me?
MICHAEL
It appears so. Come to the flat on Thursday. I want you bring more of your things.
CUSHLA
I will, if I survive sports day.
MICHAEL
I love you.
CUSHLA
You better, Agnew.
MICHAEL
So, we�re alright then?
CUSHLA
We�re doomed. Apart from that, we�re grand.
DAVY
Mummy! Mummy! I won, Mummy! I won. I won, I won!
BETTY
Well done, darling!
DAVY
I put my head down and I ran like the clappers.
BETTY
Did you?
CUSHLA
He outran them all, Betty. I wish you could�ve seen him.
BETTY
I�ll put the kettle on.
CUSHLA
Yeah?
BETTY
Aye. Go and tell Daddy.
DAVY
Daddy! Daddy, I won!
DAVY
Look, Daddy.
CUSHLA
Davy played an absolute blinder.
SEAMUS
He�s a good lad.
BETTY
Aye, pity we can�t say the same about the other one.
CUSHLA
Tommy?
BETTY
Aye, he moved out weeks ago. We hardly see him. What we do, he�s swaggering about with a few bob in his pocket, acting the big fella.
CUSHLA
Look, maybe it�s just a phase.
SEAMUS
I hope so.
BETTY
Show us your wee trophy.
CUSHLA
Mummy? I�m staying over at Gerry�s tonight.
EAMONN
The Anchor.
CUSHLA
Where�s Mummy?
EAMONN
She�s bloody here falling about the place. Come and get her.
CUSHLA
Ach, Eamonn, I have plans.
EAMONN
Now, Cushla!
CUSHLA
What�s going on?
GINA
Oh, love.
CUSHLA
What�s wrong with her? Hi.
EAMONN
Did you not hear?
CUSHLA
Hear what?
EAMONN
Michael Agnew was shot dead this morning.