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24EXT. CASTLE RUINS (AT DUN AENGUS) - NIGHT 24 *

Castle ruins/ancient hillfort overlooking high cliffs. Poteen half-gone.

PADRAIC

And you won’t get into trouble for

taking his poteen?

DOMINIC

I will get into trouble but fuck it! *

PADRAIC drinks. It’s strong stuff.

PADRAIC

I saw cannon-fire and rifle-fire on the

mainland tonight, did you see it?

DOMINIC

That’ll be the civil war.

PADRAIC

Well I know that, sure! I just didn’t

think this far West it’d be sprawling.

DOMINIC

Me, I pay no attention to wars. I’m *

agin them! Wars and soap! Agin them I *

am! *

PADRAIC hands the bottle back, & DOMINIC drinks.

DOMINIC (CONT'D)

I’ll tell you this much, we’re good at *

chatting, aren’t we, me and you? Your

sister, does she like to chat?

PADRAIC

Not as much as most women, but she’ll chat,

like. She more likes reading.

DOMINIC

Reading?! Fecking Hell. Reading!

(pause)

And did you ever see her with no

clothes on?

PADRAIC

(weirded out)

I didn’t.

DOMINIC

Did you not, and you her brother?

(pause)

Not even as a child?

PADRAIC

I don’t like to be chatting about these

types of things, Dominic.

DOMINIC

What types of things?

PADRAIC

Sisters with no clothes on.

DOMINIC

You saw my daddy with no clothes on.

PADRAIC

And till the day I die I’ll wish I