Keefa Done Out of Golden Globe

12th Jan 2009

Keefa Done Out of Golden Globe
Finbarr Bary

Rhys practicing acting with some old doll outside The Fiddlers in Blackpool. And she's loving it.

Johnny O'Keeffe, known outside Cork as Jonathan Rhys Myers was shafted at the Golden Globes on Sunday night by an anti-Cork jury that saw Dubliners Colin Farrell and Gabriel Byrne pick up awards in his place.

The Corkonian's fantastic performance in the hit series The Tudors should have guaranteed him the much coveted award but the Masonic influence of Dublin's actors, which included secret Dublin handshakes and coded pre-award speeches to the media, was brutally exercised on the night.

Farrell "won" his award for his "hilarious" performance in the tragically awful flop "In Bruges" a despicable tale about a few Dublin scangers on the ran-tan in Belgium. Gabriel Byrne probably won his for In the Name of Father.

Pale broadcaster RTE is currently ignoring Cork's victory in the Young Scientist Competition and favouring an article on Byrne and Farrell on its website instead: a double insult to Cork on top of the Rhys Meyers scandal.

The Dublin pair are unlikely to help stimulate the Irish economy (they also live abroad) yet the Cork science duo who should be considered a national treasure in light of the recession are, scandalously, nowhere to be seen on the broadcasters homepage.

Rhys Meyers, tucking into a box of munch from his favourite take-away Barties in Dillons Cross, said that he couldn't give a flying fiddlers about some poxy award and a loada posh feens runnin' round in tuxedos like a crowda hawks. He's on his way to the 147 now in Blackpool for a couple frames.

Keefa you're still gorgeous, kid. We'll get 'em next year.