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-Nervous?
-Nervous?
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l'm only trying to make legal history...
1:05:05
by doing something that's never been
done before, and if l fail, l'm unemployable.
1:05:09
But if you win, son, you're immortal.
1:05:12
You're in the history books.
1:05:15
And you'll help take this country
out of the Dark Ages.
1:05:21
Rosary beads.
l thought you weren't religious.
1:05:25
l'm not.
1:05:28
When the verdict comes in,
these are for counting the score.
1:05:33
Remember, Nick, speak from your heart.
1:05:36
l'll sit up in the gallery,
out of the Ferret's eye-line.
1:05:40
Thanks, Tom.
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-Good luck, son.
-Thanks for everything.
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Right.
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Let the battle commence.
1:05:54
-ls this all right?
-lt's fine.
1:05:58
Minister, three times now
you have refused...
1:06:00
to reconsider the case of Desmond Doyle.
ls that correct?
1:06:04
lt is. A decision subsequently upheld
by the High Court.
1:06:08
Yes, but the grounds for our action now
are fundamentally different, is that not so?
1:06:14
l suppose it is.
1:06:16
Could you tell us, Minister, to whom or
to what do you owe your eminent position?
1:06:21
Pardon?
1:06:22
Your job, sir. Who appointed you?
1:06:24
Objection, Your Lordship.
This is irrelevant, not to say insolent.
1:06:28
My lord...
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counsel for the plaintiff
has indeed failed to establish relevance.
1:06:34
l am about to do so, Your Lordship.
1:06:36
l hope so, Mr. Barron. Proceed.
1:06:40
As Minister for Education, you are
a government appointee, are you not?
1:06:44
Of course l am.
1:06:46
What is the document on which
the lrish government's authority...
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and therefore your authority, rests?
1:06:52
The lrish Constitution.
1:06:55
Have you read it recently?
1:06:57
Objection, Your Lordship.
This is insufferable!
1:06:59
Counsel for the plaintiff is not displaying
due deference to the witness, my lord.