- I think you'd better go. - Okay.
Is my da comin' home or not?
Don't build up your hopes, Liam.
You said the prisoners were comin' home.
What's wrong?
We're this close to a deal...
but I'm gettin' no concessions on the prisoners.
It's as though the Brits want the cease-fire to fail.
Harry says the only thing they respond to is violence.
- It's a sellout. - Go on, Belfast!
Belfast is comin' back to life.
People see this man, who was once committed to violence...
now fightin' within the rules.
It's caught their imagination.
People are here together-- Catholic and Protestant--
with no animosity.
Don't be overeager.
If you go for him too early, you're in trouble.
- How's it goin'? - Not bad.
- Kids enjoyin' the gear? -Just great.
Danny, you know Reggie Bell, RUC community relations.
Good luck tonight. It's great for the city.
Great for all of us.
Lovely. I'll leave you two.
- All the best, Reg. - Thanks.
- I don't like bein' used. - What's wrong?
- I don't like bein' used. - He gave the kids all the equipment.
Concentrate on the boxin'.
- Everything's set up. - Okay.
Here comes Joe Hamill.
I RA bastard!
- Bastard! - Get out of Belfast!
Stop fighting amongst yourselves!
Can we all sing together...
a song we all know, "Danny Boy"?
Altogether now.
- Where's Liam? - He's not comin'.
Did he say he didn't want to come?
That's right. He said he didn't want to come.
Oh, Danny boy
The pipes The pipes are callin'
From glen to glen
And down the mountainside
The summer's gone
And all the flowers are dying
Did you hear that? That'll put pride in your heart.
Frank Patterson's out front. He runs the Commonwealth Sporting Club in London.
- He's got a big promotion comin' up. - Not now, Matt.
It's on television.
It's a fuckin' meat trade, and we don't want it.
There's a good few grand in it.
Forget about London. Just concentrate on this fight.
All right. Time to go.
No dressin' gown. No nothin'.
But come ye back
When summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed
And white with snow
'Tis I'll be there
In sunshine or in shadow
Oh, Danny boy
I love you so
Okay, boys, let's go. Follow my instructions.
Protect yourselves, and shake hands.
Stop! Go to a neutral corner.
One, two...
three, four...
five, six...
seven--
Are you all right?
Box!
One, two, three...
four, five, six...
seven, eight--
- You okay? - I'm all right.
Box!
One, two, three...
four, five...
six, seven...
eight, nine, ten!
You're out!
Thanks very much. Well done.
Great night for the city of Belfast.
The crowd will be comin' out now, Catholics and Protestants together.
The band will lead them down the street. Get as many good pictures as you can.
They'll be coming out together, so you can clear the barriers away.
Okay.
Keep calm.
You can all see where your exits are.
Don't panic.
Get up slowly.
Leave the building.
Just keep calm.
There's absolutely no need to panic.
Go out through the main exit.
They've killed the policeman, Reggie Bell. Let's move.
Jesus! Come on. Let's move it. Move it!
Follow the exit signs behind you.
McCormack! McCormack! I wanna talk to you now!
Go out through the main exit.
- Cop killer! - There's no need to panic.
- Catholic bastards! Bastards! - Follow the exit signs.
You're all right, son.
- Kill him! Kill him! - They killed a cop!
You're okay. Take his hand now, son.
Keep calm.
Watch yourself now. That's right.
- Good, lad. - Oh, Daddy! Oh, Daddy, no!
- You'll be okay! - Daddy!
- Quit pushin'! - Dad!
There's a kid dyin' in there!
Give him some space! There's a kid dyin' in there!
- Stop it! Stop it! - Charge!
Irish pigs!
Run, Ned! Run!
Come on! Run, will ya?
Where the fuck were you?
What are these for?
They're the keys to the gym. Come on.
Where's the petrol?
Should never have taken that gear from him.
Don't even think about it, Ike.
He has a wife and three children, Danny.
Anything that belongs to the cops.
We'll burn it outside.
- I'm not takin' that outside. - Why not?
'Cause, Liam, the Brits are everywhere.
We'll burn it here.
Stop messin', Ned.
Mickey, roll over! Oh,jeez!
- Get him! - Mickey, get up!
Gotta get outta here! Let's get out! Come on!
- Let's get out! Come on! - Run, Mickey! Get out!
The gym is on fire!
The gym's on fire!
Get away from the building!
Get the pictures!
This is for your own safety!
- You'd better leave right now! - Come on, Ike!
Time to get out!
- You can't go in there! - I work in there!
- I work in there, and I have to get-- - It's not safe!
Get away from the building!
Serves youse bloody well right for takin' the stuff from the police!
I'm in the middle of negotiations...
and you let off this fuckin' bomb.
What did you achieve by it? You achieved zero.
- Zero? - Grow up. Grow up.
Stop livin' in the past and get your head into the future.
You can keep goin'. You can split this organization in two.
But you're gonna have to accept the consequences.
- What consequences? - You know what fuckin' consequences.
You don't have all the guns,Joe.
A lot of the active servicemen won't accept this peace bullshit anymore.
Are you threatenin' me?
You're goin' soft,Joe.
Ya think so?
You had men in prison...
who starved themselves to death for you,Joe.
Ten of them. Now you have Danny Boy Flynn...
wanderin' around the place makin' a mockery of everything you stood for...
and you don't even see it.
But a child can see it,Joe.
A wee innocent child can see the truth.
What are you talkin' about?
Why don't you ask Liam why he burned down the gym?
I just follow orders.
He's way out of control,Joe.
Hello, Maggie.
- It's your da. - All right.
What's wrong?
I don't want to lose you.
Sure you never will.
You've got to be above reproach.
Tell me-- Tell me you don't love Danny Flynn.
You've got to get rid of him.
What are you talkin' about?
- We've done nothin' wrong. - That's not the point.
- Everybody thinks you did. - Well, to hell with them.
To hell with 'em!
Liam burned down the gym.
- Where is he? - Upstairs.
What the hell did you think you were doing?
I saw ya. I saw ya with him.
You're gonna run away with him, aren't ya?
I'm gonna stay right here with you.
I don't want to see him ever again.
Leave him, Maggie.
He's suffered enough.
He's suffered enough?
Jesus.
My marriage was over before Liam was even born.
I'm the prisoner here.
You and your politics have made sure of that.
All I wanted was for you to have a good marriage.
Like you and my mother?
Do you know how much it cost her to smile...
every time you walked through the front door?
She lived her whole bloody life worried to death. And for what?
Will ya look me in the eye and tell me for what?
I suppose she believed in me, Maggie.
She thought the ground that you walked on was sacred.
So did I.
I'm not going to lose Danny.
Then you'll have to tell him to go.
Why?
I can't protect him, Maggie.
You'll have to get rid of him, or you'll find him in a pool of blood.
God help you.
God help you, Father.
Maggie, come in.
I have to talk to you, Danny.
- Want a cup of tea? - Aye.
I have something to say to you.
I've been up all night, and I--
I've written ya a letter.
"Dear Danny...
It's taken me 1 4 years to learn to live without you...
and I don't believe that here in this place you can ever be mine.
It's not possible because too many people are gonna get hurt.
I have to protect those I love.
I'm so sorry, Danny. God bless you.
Yours always, Maggie."
What do you want?
I'm askin' you to walk away.
I don't think so.
- You made a promise. - What was that?
You said if I asked you to leave, you'd leave.
Mmm, aye.
Well, I'm askin'.
Have you been threatened?
- Why do you say that? - Have you?
I do have a mind of my own, Danny.
I know I might very well be losin' it, but I do have a mind of my own.
Is it your father? Is itJoe?
No, Danny.
It's Harry, isn't it?
Is it Harry?
Tell me. Just fuckin' tell me.
Don't, Danny.
You don't understand.
Half my fuckin' life I pissed away and all the good things in it...
because of that sickly bastard and his dirty little...
cozy little, fuckin' secret world and all the dirt in it.
And now he's tryin' to turn us into a dirty little secret. So, fuck him!
Let him know that I love you, Maggie.
Go out and tell him now. Go and fuckin' tell him.
I'll not crawl around in the fuckin' gutter for him!
I'll kill him first. I'll rip his fuckin' throat out!
Don't go outside. That's what he wants you to do.
That's what he wants me to do, and I'll fuckin' do it!
Liam burned down the gym.
He saw us together.
What are you talkin' about?
He thinks you're gonna take me away from him.
Dear God.
God help him.
When he was born, Danny, I held him in my arms...
and it made everything all right.
I can't hurt him.
Come here.
I'm not a killer, Maggie.
But this place makes me want to kill.
I wish we could stay like this forever.
You still have it.
What?
My soul, for what it's worth.
We can store the stuff in here till we get the gym goin' again.
I'm goin' to London, Ike. I'm takin' that fight.
It's a bloody circus...
and you're their performin' monkey.
We'll stay here. We'll do things at our own pace.
I'm goin', Ike, and that's it.
If you go, you're goin' on your own.
I'm not runnin' from anybody.
You can use the flat while I'm gone.
Come on, Danny boy. Move out of the corner. That's it.
Come on, Danny boy. Get your feet workin'.
Stand in the middle of the ring.
- Ten seconds left in the round. - That's it!
- Where's Ike? - He's over there.
Right there.
Can I talk to you?
It was me who burned the gym.
Why?
I thought Danny was gonna run away with my mother.
I'm sorry.
Are you gonna build the gym again?
Aye, of course, I will. Sure, I will.
When?
When Danny gets back.
See ya later.
Champagne toast. Come on. Let's get the bubbly out.
Quick as you can, please. Serve the top table first.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I ask you all to please stand and pray silence...
for your chairman who will propose the toast?
Your chairman.
The toast is the queen.
The queen.
One, two...
three, four...
five, six, seven...
eight, nine, ten!
He's out!
And the third fight this evening...
ladies and gentlemen, features from Nigeria--
Come on, Danny.
- Come on, Irish! - Quiet, please.
Gentlemen, can I ask you to confine your appreciation to clapping?
Bang.Jab him then. Bing, bing. Keep movin'.
Stay on your toes.
He's doin' well here.
- Danny's ahead. -Seeing excellent movement from Flynn.
Watch the heads. Watch the heads.
Come on. Break it up. Break! Break! Move back!
He's runnin' around too much. He can't keep that up.
Get off the ropes, Danny! Off the ropes!Jesus Christ.
Come on, Akim! Come on!
You're okay.
Phil, get the cut. Danny, you're cut.
This is it. Here comes the clash of heads.
The Irishman's too far behind in points.
He's got to knock him out to win this fight.
One, two...
three, four, five...
six, seven, eight--
You're okay. You're okay. Get your hands up.
Box!
Break!
One, two...
three, four...
five, six...
seven, eight--
Get your hands up. Box!
Come on, Flynn. Box on!
Come on, Flynn! Box!
Box on!
Box on.
It's over.
- Box on. - The fight's over.
I told you he was a quitter, didn't I, Betty?
You should have stopped the fuckin' fight. You should have stopped it.
What an extraordinary ending.
You'll never fight in this country again.
Are you happy now?
Oh, Danny boy
The pipes The pipes are callin'
That's some boxer you got there, Ike.
Throws in his own towel. You teach him that?
Aye, you laugh at Danny Flynn...
the only good thing that ever came out of this district.
I know you, Harry! You're only interested in hurtin' people.
That's your only pleasure, isn't it?
Go and get yourself another bottle of meths, Ike.
Take it easy, Harry.
You tell all the big boys in there how you ran away...
how you left Danny Flynn to take the blame...
how he kept his mouth shut...
how he should've told and a lot more innocent people would be alive today!
Shut your fuckin' mouth, ya drunken wino, or I'll shut it for ya.
You killed this district, Harry!
You killed the one thing you loved.
- Come on, Harry. He's irrelevant. - Leave me alone.
Your own son!
What are you talkin' about?
You filled his head full of shit, and you sent him out to die!
Go home.
Go home!
He's dead. He's dead, Liam.
Sorry, Liam.
The army says he could be booby-trapped.
- Come back, Liam! - He could be booby-trapped!
- He's booby-trapped! - Liam! Come back!
Stay away from the body! You have been warned!
Stay back from the body! Stay away!
You have been warned!
They're watching the house.
Fuck 'em. Can I come in?
- My father's here. - Good.
I'd like to have a word with him too.
I'm sorry about Ike Weir.
I'm gonna build a gym for the kids. Try and teach them somethin'.
You taught me to stand my ground, and that's what I'm gonna do.
Are you back for revenge, Danny?
No. No, I'm back for Maggie.
Will she be safe with ya?
She'll never be safer.
I don't know if we can have a life together. It's up to you.
You've more things at stake than I have, you know?
I'll not put her life in danger. We'll talk. We'll work things out.
Nor am I gonna sneak around as if we've done wrong. We haven't.
And I'm not leavin'.
It's a dangerous game you're playin'.
It's a dangerous game, all right,Joe. You know all about that.
It's my home, you know?
No one's gonna drive me outta my home.
Eternal rest grant unto him, Lord.
And may perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed...
in the mercy of God rest in peace.
Amen.
- Let's go for a walk. - Yep.
Can I help ya rebuild the gym? Is that okay?
Aye.
Why draw trouble to yourselves?
Because it's mad to run away as if we'd committed some crime.
- Don't forget. - It's no problem. It's all right.
Mr. Hamill.
We're bein' followed.
I'm not gonna let you drive around with a prisoner's wife. Get out of the car.
Get outta the car.
Did you forget your weddin' ring, ya fuckin' whore ya?
You're a prisoner's wife. You know what that means, don't ya?
Fuckin' whore. You'd fuck anything, wouldn't ya?
Give me the fuckin' thing!
- Kill him! - Stop it, you bastards!
Stop it!
Fuckin' whore! You know what we sacrificed in this fuckin' war?
Let's do it clean.
Let him go, bastards!
Take him away.
Move it!
What'd you think was gonna happen? You can't just walk outta here!
For 25 years we've been living with this shit!
He's fuckin' dead!
Let her go. That's from Joe.
Move away.
End of story, peacemaker.
Stand back.
Move it.
Get away from here, Danny.
You all right?
Where are you goin'?
We're going home.