Politicians in Northern Ireland have shown a “terrible failure of leadership” and are sending voters a “dangerous” message that democracy does not work, an Oscar-winning actor from the region has said.
An Irish Goodbye star Seamus O’Hara, who has also appeared in television sensation Game Of Thrones, said the lack of a functioning executive gives the “toxic” idea that casting a vote will not matter because the electorate appears “redundant”.
The actor, from Cushendun in Co Antrim, spoke to the PA news agency on the wider political situation as he criticised funding cuts to a domestic abuse charity – a move he branded “in the literalist sense, deadly”.
