Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)

Steven Robertson: Michael Connolly

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• Michael Connolly : Have you ever had a girlfriend?

  Rory : Well, I've had more girlfriends than you've had speech therapy sessions, so...

• Michael Connolly : [Siobhan is interpreting Michael's words]  When I first met Rory I thought he was trouble. And I was right. He *is* trouble. Yet because he is seen as a rebel, you believe he hasn't the responsibility to live independently. But how do you learn to be responsible? You live in the world. You make your own decisions. You make your own mistakes. So if this panel can offer independent living to someone like me who until recently had no concept of what that meant, and refuse someone whose very life is an embodiment of independence, then I believe that the panel showed a prejudice.

• Rory : Rory O'Shea was here.

  Michael Connolly : Rory O'Shea *is* here.

  [Michael points to his own heart] 

• Interview Panelist : What was your purpose in coming here today?

  Michael Connolly : A right must exist independently of its exercise.