I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.