The Tiger's Tail
- Barry speaking.
- Yes?
Not the best of news, Liam.
The planners' ruling
is on the negative side.
- They dumped on us?
- Afraid so.
Though we can appeal, of course.
- F*** you, too!
- It's so unfair, Liam.
Look, it's utterly unreasonable
to blame me.
As your lawyer, I offer advice.
The decisions are yours.
Where did we go wrong, Larry?
I fixed the minister.
Two weeks in Florida.
Councillors got what they wanted.
What else could I do?
They take bribes,
but don't want to deliver.
It's immoral. What happened to good
old-fashioned honest corruption?
By the way, I got you a bottle of '82
Mouton Rothschild as a present.
- Thank you, Liam!
- Well, you're not getting it now.
Boss, I'm desperate. All these
businessmen are mean bastards.
Decant for a couple of hours
before drinking.
Lovely! Magic moments!
Don't shake that bottle like that.
No. Is it black tie tonight?
Of course it is.
If we ever get there.
Liam, you never call.
I can't talk now, Ursula.
I'm in a meeting.
Liam, take a look to your right.
No, thank...
Liam, say something.
I've just seen myself
cleaning my windscreen.
You could talk your way
out of prison, you bastard.
- What does?
Seeing your double.
- See you tonight. Bring him along.
- Who?
Your double.
I'd be interested in him.
Liam?
Gotta get out of this traffic.
Oona.
Hello?
Oona, are you alone?
Yeah, I am.
I'm outside.
What is it, Liam?
I'm seeing things.
What things?
You know, hallucinating.
Liam, you're overdoing it.
Where's your husband?
He does have a name, you know.
And where is he?
- The usual.
- Yeah.
- A few pints on him, then.
- Don't say it, Liam. Don't.
If he ever talks to you like that
again in front of me, I'll kill him.
He gets jealous.
Of what?
He gets jealous of you, Liam.
I'm your brother, for Christ's sake!
Not really.
- Not there, Dad.
- Why not?
It's staring at me.
Thriller?
Thriller?
It thrills me.
Dialectical materialism.
Connor, you're not still at that?
Communism is totally discredited.
It's for victims.
It's over, washed up.
- Forget it!
- Then it's due for a comeback.
Now that capitalism's going down
the toilet.
Capitalism got you this house.
Got you your PlayStation,
your Game Boy, your iPod,
that orthodontist quack,
your mobile phone,
your laptop.
My skis.
Your skis.
Your golf clubs,
your moped...
You look ravishing.
Please don't ravish. It's taken me
two hours to get to this point.
Flowers are good, Liam,
but for a cancelled holiday,
I'd have expected a jewel at least.
Sorry. If I leave the country now,
the wolves'd close in.
Have you been torturing these lilies,
Liam?
Cheer up, Liam.
Try to look like your portrait.
To him, on his big night.
My God!
There he is.
Did you see that?
It's my face. It's him.
- Did you see anyone, Connor?
- He's losing it. Poor fella.
He's a victim of the internal
contradictions of capitalism.
Oh, shut up, Connor.
You can't go shooting people
just cos they look like you,
even if they're burglars.
Now put that thing away.
- Could it be you're projecting?
- What?
I mean, he's a projection of the part
of yourself that you hate.
That I hate?
For what you're doing.
And so you're trying to kill it off.
- Is that Marx or Freud?
- Just trying to help.
We're going to be late. Again.
A boy from the north side of Dublin.
Left school at 15 and renovated
a derelict house with his own hands.
- Liam, I can't hardly believe this.
- And he was off and running.
Older sister and a doting mother, no
wonder he thinks he can do no wrong.
That confidence helps him
take the knocks alright.
...with the big boys. And today,
he's changed the face of Dublin
with his stylish office blocks
and apartments.
James Joyce
wouldn't recognise the place.
Aren't you proud of your father,
Connor?
To make this fella rich, thousands
of people had to get poorer.
- Don't be a spoilsport.
- He's right.
He's had a few reversals,
but he's persevered and put together
a company that is the envy
of his fellow developers.
The Irish Enterprise Award
goes to Liam O'Leary!
If you mention your mother,
I'll never speak to you again.
Thanks, lad. Thank you.
Thank you.
I'd like to dedicate this to the mammy
who's watching on television.
This is for you, Mam.
A round of applause for Mammy!
Well, we've all had pretty good times
the last few years in Ireland.
We've all made a few bob out of it.
But it is getting tougher.
And rougher.
We've got the Celtic tiger
by the tail,
and if we let go, it's gonna turn
round and bite us in the arse.
There is no standing still
in the dynamics of capitalism.
We either continue to move forwards
Now, I want to build
a new national stadium.
State of the art.
It is my dream to bring
European soccer to Ireland.
I've bought a 50-acre
greenfield site.
I paid 45 million euro for it.
A few meadows.
Now our esteemed planners are telling
me I can't build my stadium there.
What am I supposed to do,
grow spuds on it?
Well, do you want
a new national stadium or not?
- New!
- Do you want it or not?
Yes!
Then if you're sitting beside
one of our ministers,
get working on him. Thank you all.
Thanks a lot.
Liam!
Bad luck with your planning
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