Well, that’s disappointing. It seems we will we not, any time soon, get the chance to hear Brendan O’Carroll telling us how he doesn’t care about the critics while he complains about the critics. Talking to the Sun, my man Brendan noted that Brexit had pushed back plans to shoot a sequel to Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie. “We were planning to do it this year, but the numbers weren’t right,” he said. ”The Brexit drop in Sterling makes it a lot more expensive for the studio than it would have been previously.”

When Brooklyn was released last year, there was a degree of controversy at the distributors’ suggestions that the film had registered the biggest Irish opening in two decades for a domestic release. No film has, in fact, ever come close to the €1.2 million that Mrs Brown’s Boys made just a year earlier. Brooklyn’s €600,000 was huge, but the claims only held up if you wrote Mrs Brown out of Irish cinematic history. This seems like nonsense. Brendan’s creation could hardly be more Irish if came marinated in well-stewed tea (which it probably does, come to think of it). It went on to take a massive £28 million in the UK and Ireland combined. Considering the slim budget, that suggests a whopping profit margin.

All that said, the news about the delay of Mrs Brown’s Boys 2 does press home the unavoidable fact that virtually all the money going into the project is British. Speaking to Miriam O’Callaghan, Danny O’Carroll, Brendan’s son, revealed how the stage version was facing financial collapse when the BBC stepped in to order a pilot for the TV series. “He told us all that he couldn’t afford to keep us going any more and for all of us to go and try and find work elsewhere,” the younger O’Carroll said. “It was very emotional for him. He was crying. Two weeks after that the BBC came and said we’d love to make a pilot. Unbelievable.” It is UK money that has kept Mrs Brown on the air and the collapse in sterling discourages spending any of that loot on location in Ireland.

All of which confirms suggestions that Brexit is (in the short term, anyway) bad for both the British and the Irish film industries. “The overall feeling we have is one of uncertainty,” James Hickey, CEO of the Irish Film Board, told me shortly after the vote. “It’s difficult to comment on uncertainty other than, well, to say it’s uncertain. We just don’t know what will be negotiated between the UK and the European Union.”

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