South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, in Dublin this week, attracted a large number of . . . well, teenagers. Appropriate, really, as the plot of the 18s-rated movie revolves around the pernicious effects of adult films on the impressionable young. Appropriate, really, as the plot of the over-18 rated movie revolves around the pernicious effects of adult films on the impressionable young. Dressed in a lilac trouser suit, Emir Holohan-Doyle , the newly-crowned Miss Ireland, attended the screening on the arm of a lovely, albeit youthful, escort.
Sporting short bleached hair, her brother Calvin, (16), had travelled up from Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, for the event. "South Park is an acquired taste," said the knowing student who goes into Junior Cert class this year.
An ascending light in the night-club firmament is Ivano Cafolla, a pirate radio DJ from Foxrock, in Dublin. He's big in radio, someone whispers. Ivano, tall and sporting another blond halo, is about to start fifth year at Blackrock College.
There were slightly older South Park fans in evidence too at the screening party. Boyish and eager Donal Scannell, TV producer and one of the newest publishers on the block, was there. He attributes his drive and can-do mentality to the fact that he comes from and wanted to leave Ballinasloe, Co Galway. "It's like South Park," he adds for good measure. Mary Cosgrove, a postgrad student from Ballinteer, Dublin, is enthralled by South Park. And waving their South Park paraphernalia, ready to introduce any interested party to their tiny Kenny and Kyle key-rings, Sarah Carroll, from Windmill Lane Pictures, and Suzanne Geraghty, a Dublin-based artist from Carna in Connemara, are there also.
Fellow actors and Corkonians, Mary Keane and Bill Murphy, greet each other. Airkiss, air-kiss. Since landing his role in Ordinary Decent Criminal with Kevin Spacey, which is due out in November, Murphy's year has been "crazy", he says.