Neds Page #4

- No, sir.

Boys your age can find themselves

with nothing to do over the summer.

And sometimes they get themselves

into trouble.

So try and keep yourself occupied.

There's a friend of mine runs

a summer school for kids like yourself.

Keeps them fit.

I think you'd get a lot out of it.

- Understand?

- Yes, sir.

Go. Enjoy yourself.

Oh, no, I'm not having this again.

No way.

Bad enough your father turning this

place into a doss house without you...

What are you staring at?

When you near your illness read out,

put your hand up. Okay?

All right. Er...perforated eardrum?

Okay.

Er....diabetic'? Good.

Okay. Epilepsy? All right, buddy.

And who's the other asthmatic?

Okay.

Glass eye?

Oh, that's good.

It looks...a good one.

Er...hole in the heart?

Okay.

- And you've had the operation?

- Aye.

Your mammy's happy you're here?

Aye? Good, good, good, okay.

- Right, what have you got?

- I've got verrucas, sir.

"Verrucassir"? Oh, verrucas, right.

What's a "verrucassir"?

Yourself?

Have you?

- You're a bit young, are you?

- Just sort of happened, you know.

How do you spell that, do you know?

What about youse boys? You must

have something wrong with you.

No?

Well, you two better keep

eating your porridge,

cos it looks as if the future of

the human race is gonna depend on you.

Right, okay.

Fielders, go to the field.

Batters, get behind me...Satan.

This is f***ing amazing, man.

You're rich.

It's my dad's player

but he lets me borrow his records.

Try them. Sounds f***ing amazing.

- Will I take them out?

- Aye. Put them on.

Here. You ready?

- This is f***ing amazing, man.

- What?

F***ing amazing, man!

Bring your friend down for some

juice and biscuits, please, Julian.

- We have to go down.

- Down where?

For some juice and biscuits.

There we go.

- So what's your name?

- John.

- And which school do you go to, John?

- St John of the Cross.

Oh, so is that Lourdes Chapel

you attend?

- Yeah.

- Oh? Biscuit?

Thanks.

- And what does your father do?

- He's a toolmaker.

- Do you have brothers and sisters?

- Two.

What about your mother?

Does she work?

She's part-time.

In a supermarket or something?

No. She's a nurse

in the Southern General.

Oh...

And what do you want to do

when you leave school?

- Go to work with your father?

- No. I want to go to university.

Really? And study what?

I dunno.

Is this one of them?

No. No, he's not one of them.

You better not be

pissing me about, son.

- What you running for?

- Don't know.

- Where do you stay?

- Dove Street.

- What's your name? Name?

- John McGill.

Are you sure he wasn't one of them?

I'm not repeating myself to you,

you prick.

If you're f***ing with me, son,

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